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Tough Decisions : Cases in Medical Ethics.

Freeman, John M.

Tough Decisions : Cases in Medical Ethics. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (244 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- PART I-DEATH AND DYING -- Chapter 1. Maggie -- Chapter 2. Jill -- Chapter 3. Ed Martinez -- PART II-ADULTHOOD -- Chapter 4. Leon -- Chapter 5. Ms. Williams -- Chapter 6 Wanda -- Chapter 7. The Maxistop Study -- PART III-CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE -- Chapter 8. Joey, Jessica, Roger, Tom, and Marti -- Chapter 9. Marti Revisited -- Chapter 10. Tom Revisited -- Chapter 11. Billy -- Chapter 12. The Castelli Baby -- Chapter 13. Christie -- PART IV-CONCEPTION AND GESTATION -- Chapter 14. The Harrisons' Plans -- Chapter 15. The Smyth Saga -- Chapter 16. The Perfect Rexford -- PART V-HEALTH CARE REFORM AND ETHICAL THEORY -- Chapter 17. Affordable Health Care -- Chapter 18. Ethical Theory and Medical Ethics -- Chapter 19. Making Moral Decisions: A Process Approach.

Tough Decisions places readers in realistic composites of cases the authors have actually seen or managed where they must make tough medical decisions. What happens in them often depends on the reader's decisions and thus gives a sense of pressures that bear on clinical-decision making.

9780199759668


Medical ethics -- Case studies.
Clinical medicine -- Decision making -- Case studies.
Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies.


Electronic books.

R725.5.F74 2001

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