Handbook of Clinical Neurology - Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology

The latest Handbook of Clinical Neurology (volume 118) contains over 400 pages on ethical and legal issues in neurology written by some top experts on these issues.



Chapter 1 - Ethical principles and concepts in medicine

Pages 1-9

Robert M. Taylor



Chapter 2 - The analysis and resolution of ethical dilemmas

Pages 11-23

Robert C. Macauley



Chapter 3 - Ethics committees and consultantsPages 25-34

C. Christopher Hook, Keith M. Swetz, Paul S. Mueller



Chapter 4 - Legal process, litigation, and judicial decisionsPages 35-61

H. Richard Beresford



Chapter 5 - Law, ethics, and the clinical neurologistPages 63-78

Lois Margaret Nora



Chapter 6 - Religion and medical ethicsPages 79-89

Ronald M. Green



Chapter 7 - Professional conduct and misconductPages 91-105

Emily B. Rubin



Chapter 8 - Medical error and disclosure

Pages 107-117

Andrew A. White, Thomas H. Gallagher



Chapter 9 - The good doctor: professionalism in the 21st centuryPages 119-132

Amy Y. Tsou, Claire J. Creutzfeldt, James M. Gordon



Chapter 10 - Palliative treatment of chronic neurologic disordersPages 133-139

Stefan Lorenzl, Georg Nübling, Klaus Maria Perrar, Raymond Voltz



Chapter 11 - Care of the dying neurologic patientPages 141-145

Raymond Voltz, Georg Nübling, Stefan Lorenzl



Chapter 12 - Withdrawing and withholding life-sustaining treatmentPages 147-153

Thomas I. Cochrane



Chapter 13 - European perspectives on ethics and law in end-of-life carePages 155-165

Ralf J. Jox, Ruth J. Horn, Richard Huxtable



Chapter 14 - Medical futilityPages 167-179

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Michael De Ridder



Chapter 15 - Assisted suicide and euthanasiaPages 181-189

Agnes van der Heide



Chapter 16 - Brain deathPages 191-203

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks



Chapter 17 - Coma and disorders of consciousnessPages 205-213

Marie-Aurélie Bruno, Steven Laureys, Athena Demertzi



Chapter 18 - Ethical issues in the care of the neurologically devastated infantPages 215-224

Tracy K. Koogler



Chapter 19 - Ethical issues in states of impaired communication with intact consciousness and languagePages 225-231

Leo Mccluskey



Chapter 20 - Ethical issues in the neurology of aging and cognitive declinePages 233-242

Eran Klein, Jason Karlawish



Chapter 21 - Ethics in neurodevelopmental disabilityPages 243-263

Eric Racine, Emily Bell, Michael Shevell



Chapter 22 - Ethical issues in neurogenetic disordersPages 265-276

Peter B. Kang



Chapter 23 - Public policy and healthcare systemsPages 277-287

Marc R. Nuwer



Chapter 24 - Research involving human subjects: ethical and regulatory issuesPages 289-299

Jerry Menikoff



Chapter 25 - The ethics of clinical research in low- and middle-income countriesPages 301-313

Timothy Lahey



Chapter 26 - The ethics of surgically invasive neuroscience researchPages 315-321

Paul J. Ford, Abhishek Deshpande



Chapter 27 - The ethics of neuroenhancementPages 323-334

Anjan Chatterjee



Chapter 28 - Neuroethical issues in clinical neuroscience researchPages 335-343

James A. Anderson, Marleen Eijkholt, Judy Illes



Chapter 29 - Neurologic disorder and criminal responsibilityPages 345-356

Gideon Yaffe



Chapter 30 - Pragmatic neuroethics: the social aspects of ethics in disorders of consciousnessPages 357-372

Eric Racine



Chapter 31 - The nature of consciousness

Pages 373-407

Adam Zeman, Jan Adriaan Coebergh



Chapter 32 - Dementia and personal identity: implications for decision-making

Pages 409-418

Winston Chiong



Chapter 33 - The definition and criterion of deathPages 419-435

James L. Bernat