- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including conflicts of interest in anesthesia practice; ethical standards in publication: plagiarism, ghost writing and “guest authorship”; ethics of expert witnesses; anesthesiologist and capital punishment/lethal injection; environmental stewardship in anesthesia practice; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on ethical approaches to the practice of anesthesiology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Authors
Neal H. Cohen Vice Dean, Affiliations and Compliance Professor Emeritus, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. Gail Van Norman Professor Emeritus, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, USA.Gail A. Van Norman is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is an academic clinician/ethicist who has spent over 35 years in clinical practice and published a number of articles regarding the ethics and background of animal research as well as regulatory issues in pharmaceutical research and the failure of animal studies to provide effective scientific translation to human medicine. Her reviews of animal and nonanimal research published in JACC Basic to Translational Science have been among the most highly read, downloaded, and cited articles throughout the journal's history. She has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings regarding the issues of animal research and translational science failures.
