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Practical decision making in health care ethics : cases and concepts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devettere, Raymond
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [1995]
Subjects:
Ethics, Medical.
Resuscitation Orders.
Decision Making.
Table of Contents:
  • What is ethics?
  • Prudence and living a good live
  • The language of health care ethics
  • Making health care decisions
  • Deciding for others
  • Determining life and death
  • Life-sustaining treatments
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • Medical nutrition and hydration
  • Reproductive issues
  • Prenatal life
  • Neonatal life
  • Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
  • Medical research
  • Transplantation.