Ethical Issues in Neurology

Current and comprehensive, this significant text covers the ethical dilemmas you face in daily practice. While exploring and analyzing each ethical issue, it reviews existing guidelines and scholarly opinions and offers you balanced and objective approaches. Updated and revised, this new edition includes new chapters on controversial issues including palliative care, withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, and clinical research. * Offers a balanced, objective view alongside Dr. Bernat's personal and professional perspectives * Includes an expanded professional ethics chapter * Extensively revised sections on physician-assisted suicide and futility