Who decides? : conflicts of rights in health care /
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| Language: | English |
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Clifton, N.J. :
Humana Press,
[1982]
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| Series: | Contemporary issues in biomedicine, ethics, and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Nora K. Bell
- Patients and their healers : historical studies in health care / Guenter B. Risse
- Part I. Limits of professional autonomy
- Goals of medical care : a reappraisal / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
- Establishing limits to professional autonomy : whose responsibility? A nusing perspective / Mila Ann Aroskar
- Limits to responsibility and decision-making : some comments / Jay Wolfson
- Can physicians mind their own business and still practice medicine? / Samuel Gorovitz-- Allocating autonomy : can patients and practitioners share? / Sally Godow
- Part II. Refusing/withdrawing from treatment
- The right to refuse treatment : a critique / Thomas Szasz
- Refusal of psychiatric treatment : autonomy, competence, and paternalism / Ruth Macklin
- Consent and competence : a commentary on Szasz and Macklin / James L. Stiver
- Part III. Death and dying : electing heroic measures
- What is heroic? / James A. Bryan, II
- The moral justification for withholding heroic procedures / Tom L. Beauchamp
- Response to Bryan and Beauchamp / Kevin Lewis
- Part IV. Advancing reproductive technology
- Ethics and reproductive biology / Daniel Callahan
- Fathers Anonymous : beyond the best interests of the sperm doner / George J. Annas
- Law and ethics : three persistent myths / F. Patrick Hubbard.