Ethics in clinical practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahronheim, Judith C.
Other Authors: Moreno, Jonathan D., Zuckerman, Connie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2005]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
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