| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 323 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Principles and Core Values -- What Is Health Care Ethics? -- Other Ethical Systems -- Medical Ethics Needs Accurate Distinctions -- The Values Inherent in Medical Care -- Medical Ethics: Basic Goals -- Medicine: Not an Exact Science -- Professionalism: The Essence Is Empathy -- Professional Attitudes--The Ethical Physician -- Human Rights and Health Care -- Culture and Religion -- "No Greater Love" -- Informed Consent: Personal and Proxy -- Informed Consent -- Proxy Consent: Deciding for Others -- Informed Consent and the Purpose of Medicine -- Standards for Surrogates -- Informed Consent: Therapeutic and Nontherapeutic Procedures -- Informed Consent: Neonatal Care -- When Children Can Consent -- Telling the Truth to Patients -- Confidentiality -- Confidentiality in the Computer Age -- CPR and DNR Revisited -- Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney -- The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) -- Advance Directives Revisited -- Use and Removal of Life Support -- Ordinary and Extraordinary Means -- Ethical Criteria for Removing Life Support -- Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support -- Assessing Treatment Options -- Discontinuing Life Support in Doubt -- Religious Beliefs and Lifesaving Therapy -- Care for Patients in Persistent Vegetative States -- Unfinished Business in the Cruzan Case -- "Only God Can Heal My Daughter" -- It's Time to Resolve the "Futility Debate" -- Court Decisions on Futile Therapy -- The Wanglie Case: Demands for Futile Therapy -- Baby K: It's Time to Take a Stand -- Genetics. |
| Summary |
"From Harry and Louise through the McCaughey septuplets, this book explains stories and issues in health care ethics that have appeared in the news media. This second edition contains extensive new material and new topics, including physician-assisted suicide, managed care, organ donation, genetic testing, cloning, and the question of futility. Aimed at a wide audience, this book will also be useful for introductory ethics courses in colleges and high schools."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics -- Case studies.
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Medical ethics. (OCoLC)fst01014081
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Medische ethiek.
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Ethics, Medical. (DNLM)D004992
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| Added Author |
O'Rourke, Kevin D.
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| ISBN |
0878408029 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780878408023 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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