ETHICS FOR DOCTORS, NURSES, AND PATIENTS

In recent years there has been, along with a general collapse of moral standards, an opposite upsurge of interest in medical and nursing ethics. Every new and dramatic advance in medicine brings with it a new ethical problem, some of them apparently insoluble. Responsible doctors and nurses try to come up with the right answers, but as often as not they end up in confusion. The author shows that, if medical and nursing professionals keep to the unchanging ethical standards which have come down to us from our Judeo-Christian traditions, they will be able to arrive at sound judgments of what is right and what is wrong. The book deals with the subject in a manner which will interest not only doctors, nurses and students, but also the patients who must necessarily share in making ethical decisions.

About the Author: The late Dr. H.P. Dunn was an obstetrician and gynecologist in Auckland, New Zealand. A Papal Knight, he held Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (both in England), the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Royal New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He was the New Zealand Correspondent of Human Life International (Washington, DC) and the Linacre Quarterly (Wisconsin) as well as the Medical Correspondent for The Tablet (New Zealand). Father of seven children, he also wrote the successful The Doctor and Christian Marriage (Alba House, 1992). His son, the Rev. Patrick J. Dunn, the author of Priesthood (Alba House, 1990), is now the bishop of Auckland, New Zealand.