Complex Ethics Consultations: Volume 2, 9781009400909
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Haunting ethics cases reveal moral distress, justice, and complex healthcare dilemmas.

Complex Ethics Consultations: Volume 2

Cases That Haunt Us in a New Era

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    266 pages

  • Release Date

    22 January 2026

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Summary

Clinical ethics consultants navigate some of the most challenging cases in patient care, public health, and healthcare policy. This volume richly details haunting cases pertaining to perinatal, pediatric, and end-of-life issues; neurodiversity; disability; and employment of high-tech devices. Authors explain distinctive features of consultations in rural and pandemic contexts and complicated transitions into and out of inpatient care.

Cases are grouped together by theme and organized …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781009400909
ISBN-10:1009400908
Author:Denise M. Dudzinski, Kaarkuzhali Babu Krishnamurthy, Paul J. Ford
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:266
Release Date:22 January 2026
Weight:408g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm x 14mm
About The Author

Denise M. Dudzinski

Denise M. Dudzinski is Professor in Bioethics & Humanities and Pediatrics, Division of Bioethics & Palliative Care at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle. She is Director of the Ethics Consultation Service at UW Medicine and Director of Organizational Ethics at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Kaarkuzhali Babu Krishnamurthy is Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurology, Division Head, Epilepsy and EEG, and Chair of the Ethics Committee at Boston Medical Center-Brighton. She is also a member of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a staff neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Her clinical practice is focused on the care of women with epilepsy.

Paul J. Ford specializes in ethical challenges in neurological diseases and directs the NeuroEthics Program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation with a faculty appointment in the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland. He has performed more than two thousand ethics consultations and authored more than one hundred publications.

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