Machine derived contents note: Foreword, Paul A. Ebert (American College of Surgeons, Chicago) -- Preface -- 1. Principles and Practice of Surgical Ethics, Laurence B. McCullough, James W. Jones, and Baruch A. Brody (all at Baylor College of Medicine) -- 2. Informed Consent: Autonomous Decision Making of the Surgical Patient, Laurence B. McCullough, James W. Jones, and Baruch A. Brody -- 3. Confidentiality in Surgical Practice, Mary Faith Marshall and C.D. Smith, III (both at Medical University of South Carolina) -- 4. Advance Directives and the Determination of Death, Stuart J. Younger and Jerry M. Shuck (both at Case Western Reserve) -- 5. Emergency Patients: Serious Moral Choices, with Limited Time, Information, and Patient Participation, Kenneth L. Mattox and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (both at Baylor College of Medicine) -- 6. The Acute, High-Risk Patient: The Case of Transplantation, Robert M. Arnold (University of Pittsburgh), Byers W. Shaw (University of Nebraska), and Ruth Purtilo (Creighton University) -- 7. Acute Yet Non-Emergent Patients, Jeremy Sugarman and Robert Harland (both at Duke University) -- 8. Elective Patients, Andrew Lustig and Peter Scardino (both at Baylor College of Medicine) -- 9. The Poor Surgical Risk Patient, Amir Halevy and John C. Baldwin (both at Baylor College of Medicine) -- 10. Care of the Dying Patient, Stephen Wear, Robert Milch (both at SUNY, Buffalo), and W. Lynn Weaver (Morehouse School of Medicine) -- 11. Patients Who are Family Members, Friends, Colleagues, Family Members of Colleagues, Jonathan D. Moreno (University of Virginia) and Frank E. Lucente (SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn) -- 12. Research and Innovation in Surgery, Joel E. Frader (Northwestern University) and Donna A. Caniano (Ohio State University) -- 13. Preventing and Managing Unwarranted Biases against Patients, Loretta M. Kopelman, Donald R. Lannin, and Arthur E. Kopelman (all at East Carolina University) -- 14. Self-Regulation of Surgical Practice and Research, R. Scott Jones (both at University of Virginia) and John C. Fletcher -- 15. Surgery and Other Medical Specialties, Nancy S. Jecker and Margaret D. Allen (both at University of Washington) -- 16. Obligations of Surgeons to Non-Physician Team Members and Trainees, Ruth Purtilo (Creighton University), W. Byers Shaw (University of Nebraska) Robert Arnold (University of Pittsburgh) -- 17. Financial Relationships with Patients, Kenneth V. Iserson and Bruce E. Jarrell (both at University of Arizona) -- 18. Understanding, Assessing, and Managing Conflicts of Interest, George Khushf and Robert Gifford (both at University of South Carolina) -- 19. Relationships with Payers and Institutions that Manage and Deliver Patient Services, Kevin Wm. Wildes and Robert B. Wallace (both at Georgetown University)
