An Introduction to Applied Clinical Ethics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- 1st Edition - November 4, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Ifeoma U. Perkins
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 1 8 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 1 8 7 - 5
An Introduction to Ethics, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine offers an organized and practical approach to examining dilemmas that occur frequently in pathology and laboratory me… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAn Introduction to Ethics, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine offers an organized and practical approach to examining dilemmas that occur frequently in pathology and laboratory medicine in a systematic way. This is a unique and novel resource to enable readers to confidently reach potential solutions with strong ethical reasoning that not only furthers quality patient care but honors the good intentions of their care givers. This book is for healthcare providers, instructors, students of allied health services, researchers, laboratory technologists, and members of the healthcare delivery team who utilize pathology and laboratory services. Each chapter is written in a case-based format followed by a discussion section further exploring the ethical dilemmas demonstrated by the cases. The cases are as suitable for practicing pathologists as well as medical school and PhD students and resident and fellows in all stages of clinical and research training.
- Allows readers to identify the most common ethical dilemmas in pathology and laboratory medicine
- Provides readers a diversity of ways the same type of ethical challenge may manifest, enabling the reader to better identify these challenges when they present in varied (and often more complex) forms; each chapter will include multiple cases illustrating similar challenges in differing presentations
- Includes a rich case discussion section in each chapter that will include current regulatory and legal statutes (where relevant) that offer guidance in getting to potential ethical resolutions to the challenges depicted
Pathology graduate medical education programs (pathology faculty, pathology residents, pathology clinical and research fellows including PhD students, and pathology medical students)
1. Introduction
2. Review of the pathology specimen pathway
3. How to use this book
4. Ethical dilemmas surrounding pathology and error
5. Challenges with ethical implications in consultative pathology
6. Where’s Waldo’s Specimen: Challenges in pathology specimen handling
7. Dilemmas involving the allocation of scarce resources in pathology
8. Ethical dilemmas involving the pathology report
9. Ethical dilemmas involving informed consent
10. Ethical dilemmas when the pathologist knows the patient
11. Ethical dilemmas involving tissue utilization
12. Ethical issues in pathology graduate medical education
13. Ethical dilemmas involving pathologists as medical expert witnesses
14. Ethical dilemmas related to advances in technology (AI) in pathology
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 4, 2025
- No. of pages (eBook): 700
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443131882
- eBook ISBN: 9780443131875
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Ifeoma U. Perkins
Dr. Ifeoma Perkins is an anatomic pathologist and double board certified in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology, and dermatopathology. She is adjunct faculty of pathology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus where she teaches pathology residents, graduate medical fellows, and medical students pathology as well as disciplines related to ethics and professionalism. Dr. Perkins is also a faculty associate of the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, where she participates in multidisciplinary efforts to advance knowledge and understanding about ethical dilemmas in clinical medical specialties, particularly those with indirect patient care such as anatomic and clinical pathology. She has additionally completed training in several clinical ethics related workshops and is currently completing a certificate in certificate in bioethics and humanities at the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Perkins is considered an emerging respected educator in the United States on the subject matter of clinical ethics as it pertains to medical specialties providing indirect patient care, particularly pathology and laboratory medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical