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1 - Principles of Medical Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

By
Kenneth V. Iserson
Edited by
Catherine Marco  and
Raquel Schears
Catherine Marco
Affiliation:
Wright State University, Ohio
Raquel Schears
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic Emergency Medicine, Minnesota
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Ethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine , pp. 1 - 17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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American College of Emergency Physicians Ethics Committee. (1997). Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians. Dallas, TX: ACEP. Revised April 2011. www.acep.org/content.aspx?id=29144.Google Scholar
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Iserson, K. V. (1993). A simplified prehospital advance directive law: Arizona’s approach. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 22, 1703–1710.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Iserson, K. V. (2006). Ethical principles – emergency medicine. In Schears, R. M., Marco, C. A. (Eds.), Ethical Issues in Emergency Medicine. Emergency Clinics of North America, 24(3), 513–545.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Iserson, K. V., & Heine, C. (2013). Bioethics. In Marx, J. A., Hockberger, R. S., & Walls, R. M. (Eds.), Rosen’s emergency medicine: Concepts and clinical practice, 7th ed. (pp. e33–e46). Philadelphia: Mosby.Google Scholar
Iserson, K. V., Heine, C. E., Larkin, G. L., Moskop, J. C., Baruch, J., & Aswegan, A. L. (2008). Fight or flight: The ethics of emergency physician disaster response. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 51(4), 345–353.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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