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The importance of ethics and sociology as applied cannot be underestimated, within both the medical curriculum and everyday modern clinical practice. Medical students and junior doctors cannot hope to experience every dilemma first hand, but are expected to deal with new and problematic clinical situations in a reasoned, professional and systematic way. This volume, which accounts for the revised core curriculum in Medical Ethics and Law, will prove an indispensable companion.
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- Succinct coverage of the subject enables ‘sharp focus’ and efficient use of time during exam preparation
- Contains a fully updated self-assessment section - ideal for honing exam skills and self-testing
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1 Foundations of medical ethics and law.
2 Professionalism and medical ethics.
3 The doctor, the patient and society.
4 Ethics and law at the beginning and end of life.
5 Healthcare commissioning and resource allocation.
6 Introduction to sociology and disease.
7 Experience of health and illness.
8 Organization of health care provision in the UK.
9 Inequalities in health and health care provision.
10 Epidemiology and public health.
11 Clinical governance.
Self-assessment: Best of Five, Extended Matching Questions
The style of the book ensures its readability. It is written in a pithy "note form" style with the book's mascot - the crash-helmeted bike rider - presiding over important "need to know" stuff...the stuff that virtually every doctor will eventually need.
Dr Jeremy Sager, Univadis
The curriculum coverage is comprehensive and the level of detail throughout is impressive. This book is delightfully easy to read and logically arranged.
I really enjoyed reading this book and it will come in handy in some of my teaching.
Dr Steven De Wilde, GP Trainer and Academic, Tooting, South London
Scambler: Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine, An Illustrated Colour Text, 044304971, 172pp, 1998, £19.99
Recommended text for sociology for large proportion of medical schools. Popular because it fits the subject into the double-page spread ICT approach, but each chapter is written by a different contributor, giving the impression that each subject is not dealt with in a consistent way.
Porter: Sociology as Applied to Medicine, 0702022756, 320pp, £16.99, 1997
Again, recommended in a significant number of medical schools. Very much a 'sociology' book - the material has not been particularly aimed at the learning needs of the average medical student.
Ethics
Schwartz: Medical Ethics 0702025437, £15.99, 228 pp
There is an 18 page section on Ethics and Communication at the start of Kumar and Clark: Clinical Medicine
Undergraduate medical students
I'm still using this book for preparing a module I'm leading in the summer but so far it appears to cover all the basics of the ethical implications, policy and governance. I will be using book to guide my teachings