Clinical Ethics on Film A Guide for Medical Educators [Hardcover]

This book discusses feature films that enrich our understanding of doctor-patient dilemmas. The book comprises general clinical ethics themes and principles and is written in accessible language. Each theme is discussed and illuminated in chapters devoted to a particular film. Chapters start with a discussion of the film itself, which shares details behind the making of the film; box-office and critical reception; casting; and other facts about production. The chapter then situates the film in a history of medicine and medical sociology context before it delves into the clinical ethics issues in the film, and how to use it as a teaching aid for clinical ethics.  Readers will understand how each film in this collection served to bring particular clinical ethics issues to the publics attention or reflected medico-legal issues that were part of the public discourse. The book is a perfect instructor's guide for anyone teaching bioethics, healthcare ethics, medical sociology, medical history, healthcare systems, narrative medicine, or nursing ethics.

Part 1: END OF LIFE ON FILM.- Chapter 1: If I Was Restricted to One Film: Wit (2001).- Chapter 2: Its Really About Cruzan and Quinlan: Whose Life is It, Anyway? (1981) .- Chapter 3: Closure and Family Systems: My Life (1993).- Chapter 4: Bye, Bye, Life: All That Jazz (1979).- Part 2: FILMS ABOUT COMPETENCY AND DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY.- Chapter 5: One Eye and an Alphabet: Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) .- Chapter 6: The Successful Delusional: K-PAX (2001).- Chapter 7: Malingering and Nursing Ethics: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975).- Chapter 8: Dementia and Capacity: Still Alice (2014).- Part 3: FILMS ABOUT l7