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1 - Principles of Medical Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

By
Kenneth V. Iserson
Edited by
Catherine Marco  and
Raquel Schears
Catherine Marco
Affiliation:
Wright State University, Ohio
Raquel Schears
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine, Minnesota
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Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine , pp. 1 - 17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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American College of Emergency Physicians Ethics Committee. (1997). Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians. Dallas, TX: ACEP. Revised April 2011. www.acep.org/content.aspx?id=29144.Google Scholar
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Beauchamp, T. L., & Childress, J. F. (1989). Principles of biomedical ethics, 3rd ed. (pp. 6–9). New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Iserson, K. V. (1993). A simplified prehospital advance directive law: Arizona’s approach. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 22, 1703–1710.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Iserson, K. V. (2000). Telemedicine: A proposal for an ethical code. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 9(3), 404–406.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Iserson, K. V. (2006). Ethical principles – emergency medicine. In Schears, R. M., Marco, C. A. (Eds.), Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine. Emergency Clinics of North America, 24(3), 513–545.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Iserson, K. V. (2011). The Rapid Ethical Decision-Making Model: Critical medical interventions in resource-poor environments. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 20(1), 108–114.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Iserson, K. V., & Heine, C. (2013). Bioethics. In Marx, J. A., Hockberger, R. S., & Walls, R. M. (Eds.), Rosen’s emergency medicine: Concepts and clinical practice, 7th ed. (pp. e33–e46). Philadelphia: Mosby.Google Scholar
Iserson, K. V., Heine, C. E., Larkin, G. L., Moskop, J. C., Baruch, J., & Aswegan, A. L. (2008). Fight or flight: The ethics of emergency physician disaster response. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 51(4), 345–353.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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