Dental Ethics At Chairside: Professional Principles And Practical Applications

Dental Ethics At Chairside: Professional Principles And Practical Applications

Written to be used in professional ethics programs in dental schools, the new edition of this textbook adds chapters on confidentiality of patient records and the ethics of managed care. After exploring central values and broad ethical issues of the dental profession, chapters focus on such topics as patients with compromised capacity, education and cooperation, bad outcomes, HIV and AIDS in patients and dentists, social justice and access to dental care, dentistry as a business, and the dental profession and the wider community. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR