An Introduction to Ethics, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine

An Introduction to Ethics, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine offers an organized and practical approach to examining dilemmas that occur frequently in pathology and laboratory medicine in a systematic way. This is a unique and novel resource to enable readers to confidently reach potential solutions with strong ethical reasoning that not only furthers quality patient care but honors the good intentions of their care givers. This book is for healthcare providers, instructors, students of allied health services, researchers, laboratory technologists, and members of the healthcare delivery team who utilize pathology and laboratory services. Each chapter is written in a case-based format followed by a discussion section further exploring the ethical dilemmas demonstrated by the cases. The cases are as suitable for practicing pathologists as well as medical school and PhD students and resident and fellows in all stages of clinical and research training.

• Allows readers to identify the most common ethical dilemmas in pathology and laboratory medicine
• Provides readers a diversity of ways the same type of ethical challenge may manifest, enabling the reader to better identify these challenges when they present in varied (and often more complex) forms; each chapter will include multiple cases illustrating similar challenges in differing presentations
• Includes a rich case discussion section in each chapter that will include current regulatory and legal statutes (where relevant) that offer guidance in getting to potential ethical resolutions to the challenges depicted