Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics / Edition 2

Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
019509042X
ISBN-13:
9780195090420
Pub. Date:
10/19/2000
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
019509042X
ISBN-13:
9780195090420
Pub. Date:
10/19/2000
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics / Edition 2

Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics / Edition 2

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Overview

Life is full of tough decisions that must be made ethically and under the pressures of time. This book places readers in realistic situation where they experience the difficulties of making tough medical decisions. The cases are composites of actual cases the authors have seen or managed. In the role of decision-maker, the reader helps to determine what happens in the case as his or her decision often shapes the course of events and the patient's outcome. This gives a compelling sense of the pressures that bear on clinical decision-making. The authors assume that the reader wants to do the right thing, but faces the problem of determining what the right thing will be when information is necessarily incomplete and the future unknown. Ethical theory emerges as others involved in the case offer different views of what is right in a particular medical situation. Two concluding chapters discuss the major theories of medical ethics, but there are no answers in the back of the book. Instead, the book will familiarize readers with some of the ethical principles and issues critical to the practice of medicine to patients and their families.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195090420
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/19/2000
Edition description: REV
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 9.13(w) x 6.06(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, ID

Table of Contents

Part I Death And Dying1. Maggie2. Jill3. Ed MartinezPart II Adulthood4. Leon5. Ms. Williams6. Wanda7. The Maxistop projectPart III Childhood and Adolescence8. Joey, Jessica, Tom, and Marti9. Marti Revisited10. Tom Revisited11. Billy12. The Castelli Baby13. ChristiePart IV Conception and Gestation14. The Harrisons' Plans15. The Smyth Saga16. The Perfect RefordPart V Health Care Reform and Ethical Theory17. Affordable Health Care18. Ethical Theory and Medical Ethics19. Making Moral Decisions: A Process Approach
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