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| Ethical and Legal Foundations | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| History | |
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| Values | |
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| Professionalism | |
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| Ethical Schools of Thought | |
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| Ethical Models | |
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| Patients' Rights | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| The Law | |
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| The Lawsuit | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Quality Assurance | |
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| Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Proportionality | |
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| Beneficence | |
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| Nonmaleficence | |
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| Differences Between Beneficence and Nonmaleficence | |
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| Medical Indications Involving Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence | |
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| Justice | |
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| Contractual Agreements | |
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| Surrogate Obligations | |
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| Imaging Professional's Role | |
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| Patient's Role | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Standard of Care | |
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| Negligence | |
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| Methods to Decrease Risk | |
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| Caring and Communication | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Definition of Caring | |
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| Professional Care | |
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| Examples of Caring and Communication | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Health Literacy | |
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| Caring | |
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| Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Definition of Autonomy | |
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| Patient Care Partnership | |
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| Information Delivery | |
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| Complications of Autonomy, Informed Consent, and Right of Refusal | |
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| Verfication of Informed Consent | |
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| Cometence and Incompetence Surrogacy | |
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| Obstacles to Autonomy and Informed Consent | |
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| Respect for Autonomy | |
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| Therapeutic Privilege | |
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| Emergency Situations | |
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| Competence and Advance Directives | |
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| Application of Ethical Theories to Autonomy | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Tort Law | |
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| Simple Consent | |
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| Intentional Torts | |
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| Unintentional Torts | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Truthfulness and Confidentiality | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Truthfulness and Veracity | |
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| Right to the Truth | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Obligatory Secrets | |
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| Exceptions to Confidentiality | |
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| Confidentiality and AIDS | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| HIPAA | |
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| Patient Authorization | |
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| Statutory Disclosure | |
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| Duty to Warn Third Parties | |
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| AIDS and HIV | |
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| Patient Access to Medical Records | |
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| Torts Regarding Confidentiality | |
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| Death and Dying | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Value of Life | |
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| Definitions of Death | |
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| The Patient | |
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| Sanctity of Human Life | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Imaging Professionals and Suicide | |
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| Euthanasia | |
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| Patients' Rights Regarding Euthanasia | |
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| Advance Directives and Surrogates | |
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| Quality of Life | |
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| Ethics Committees and Services for Patients with Terminal Illnesses | |
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| Family in Death and Dying | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Definitions of Death | |
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| Determination of Death | |
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| Directives | |
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| Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
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| Competence and Life-Sustaining Treatment | |
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| No-Code Orders | |
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| Living Wills | |
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| Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care Decisions | |
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| Family Consent Laws | |
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| Uniform Health Care Decisions Act | |
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| Absence of Advance Directives | |
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| Patient in a Persistent Vegetative State | |
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| Patients Who Have Never Been Competent | |
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| Health Care Distribution | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Biomedical Ethical Challenge | |
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| Rights and Health Care | |
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| Scarcity and Distribution | |
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| Distribution Allocation Groups | |
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| Distribution Theories | |
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| Distribution Decision-Making Criteria | |
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| Traditional Care | |
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| Health Care Delivery Model and Managed Care | |
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| Patient-Focused Care | |
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| Quality and Cost Effectiveness | |
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| Imaging Professionals' Participation | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Access to Medical Care | |
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| Health Care Costs | |
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| Managed Care | |
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| History of Managed Care Organizations | |
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| Legislation and Regulation of Managed Care | |
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| Institute of Medicine and Risk Managed Care | |
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| Medicare and Medicaid | |
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| Patient-Focused Care | |
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| Impact on the Imaging Professional | |
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| Student and Employee Rights and Responsibilities | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Ethical Theories | |
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| Models | |
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| Autonomy and Informed Decisions | |
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| Truthfulness and Confidentiality | |
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| Justice | |
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| Values | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Contract Law | |
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| Due Process | |
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| Substantive Due Process | |
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| Procedural Due Process | |
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| JRCERT Due Process Standards | |
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| Whistleblowing | |
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| Malpractice Liability Insurance | |
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| Employee Rights | |
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| Exceptions | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Diversity Defined | |
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| Diversity and Ethics | |
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| Diversity and Values, | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Institute of Medicine Report | |
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| Cultural and Linguistic Competency | |
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| Mandates Regarding Discrimination and Cultural Diversity | |
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| What Does Cultural and Linguistic Competency Mean to the Radiologic Technologist? | |
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| Antidiscrimination Statutes in Employment Situations | |
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| Antidiscrimination Statutes in Patient Treatment Situations | |
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| Overview of New Technology and Future Challenges | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Imaging's Example for Health Care in the 21st Century | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| Biomedical Research | |
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| Imaging Professionals' Obligation to Research | |
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| Ethics of Interpretation of Imaging Procedures and Testing | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas of Transplants | |
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| New Reproductive Methods | |
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| Humane Genome Project | |
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| Continuous Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance | |
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| Advanced Education and Responsibility | |
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| Ethics Committees | |
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| Preparing for the Future | |
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| Legal Issues | |
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| Technologic Advances Causing Legal and Ethical Havoc | |
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| Law into the Future | |
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| Legal Issues with the Human Genome Project | |
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| New Technology and the Law for Imaging Professionals | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Code of Ethics | |
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| Sample Documentation Forms | |
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| Patient Safety and Privacy Resources | |
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| Answers to Chapter Review Questions | |