Ethics in clinical practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sudbury, Mass. :
Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
[2005]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. About clinical ethics
- Ch. 2. A theory of clinical ethics
- Ch. 3. Evaluating common distinctions
- Ch. 4. Clinical ethics throughout the life span
- Ch. 5. Assessing the standard theory
- Ch. 6. Strategy for a clinical ethics assessment
- Ch. 7. Cases
- Case 1: A religious objection to a blood transfusion
- Case 2: Determining if a patient has decisional capacity
- Case 3: Urgent surgery in a stuporous patient : the use and limitations of advance directives
- Case 4: Management of life-threatening illness : an intensive care unit patient with uncertain decisional capacity
- Case 5: "Don't Tell Mother" : withholding information from a patient
- Case 6: Alternative medicine for a patient with advanced cancer
- Case 7: Painful treatment for a severely retarded man
- Case 8: Withdrawing mechanical ventilation at the request of a patient with decisional capacity
- Case 9: Withholding tube feeding in a woman with advanced dementia
- Case 10: A religious objection to the determination of brain death
- Case 11: A teenager with prolonged unconsciousness
- Case 12: Resuscitation decision in a patient with lung cancer
- Case 13: Dispute over DNR status in a patient who wants palliative surgery
- Case 14: Suicide risk in a managed care patient
- Case 15: Assisted suicide in a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Case 16: A married man contracts syphilis
- Case 17: A house-bound woman with tuberculosis
- Case 18: Surgical delay in a patient infected with HIV
- Case 19: An elderly driver
- Case 20: A difficult patient and the limits of provider obligations
- Case 21: "Do Everything": physician obligations in the face of family demands
- Case 22: A man with alcoholic cirrhosis wants a liver transplant
- Case 23: Genetic testing in a woman with a family history of breast cancer
- Case 24: Assisted reproduction in a woman with strong religious beliefs
- Case 25: Prenatal counseling of a pregnant woman at risk for HIV infection
- Case 26: A pregnant woman using cocaine
- Case 27: Tracheoesophageal fistula in a newborn with Down Syndrome
- Case 28: Determination of death in a newborn
- Case 29: A religious objection to a child's medical treatment
- Case 30: A teenager who wants cosmetic surgery
- Case 31: An adolescent with cancer who wants to discontinue medical treatment