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Clinical bioethics : theory and practice in medical ethical decision-making /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drane, James F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kansas City, MO : Sheed & Ward, [1994]
Subjects:
Ethics, Medical.
Bioethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Basic facts about health care ethics committees
  • Background ethics education for clinical professionals
  • Ethics as proper procedure: methodologies for handling clinical cases
  • Ethics of death and dying
  • Euthanasia, artificial alimentation, hi-tech medicine, AIDS and other issues in the 1990s
  • Ethics committees and the law
  • Informed consent
  • HECs and patient self determination act
  • Grappling with patient competency
  • Making life and death decisions for incompetent patients: the quality-of-life concept and the best interest standard.
  • Problems and pitfalls of the HEC
  • Additional resources
  • Bibliography for ethics committees
  • Quality of life and withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.