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Health professionals are held to stringent ethical standards. Although there are thousands of books related to ethics, none have provided the needed introduction and concise overview of the subject. This book covers the philosophical foundations, scandals, regulations, research ethics, available training, compliance requirements, codes of ethics, attacks on science, public perceptions, unsolved current and future ethical problems, and a survival guide. This Chapter helps one to understand their complex ethical environment and learn how to pursue their professions competently and ethically. Two true stories of health professionals who had their careers harmed by ethics-related accusations are presented to demonstrate that even qualified people can be caught in traps that they did not anticipate.
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Phalen, R.F. (2017). Introduction. In: Core Ethics for Health Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56090-8_1
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