Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
McGraw Hill, Medical Pub. Division,
[2006]
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Indicated and nonindicated interventions-- Orders not to resuscitation (DNR)
- Legal implications of forgoing treatment
- Determination of death
- Informed consent
- Decisional capacity
- Beliefs due to religious and cultural diversity
- Truthful communication
- Competent refusal of treatment
- Advance planning
- Decision making for the mentally incapacitated patient
- The limits of patient preferences
- Failure to cooperate with medical recommendations
- Alternative medicine
- Enhancing quality of life
- Compromised quality of life and life-sustaining interventions
- Euthanasia and assisted suicide
- Care of the dying patient
- Suicide
- Role of interested parties
- Confidentiality of medical information
- The economics of clinical care
- Allocation of scarce health resources
- Influence of religion on clinical decisions
- The role of the law in clinical decisions
- Clinical research
- Clinical teaching
- Occupational medicine
- Public health
- Ethics committees
- Ethics consultation.