Ethics in Clinical Practice, Second Edition
Judith Ahronheim, MD, Jonathan Moreno, PhD, Connie Zuckerman, JD
ISBN-13: 9780763729455
ISBN-10: 0763729450
$97.95 (Sugg. US List)
Hardcover
508 Pages
© 2000
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Contents: About Clinical Ethics * A Theory of Clinical Ethics * Evaluating Common Distinctions * Clinical Ethics Throughout the Life Span * Assessing the Standard Theory * Strategy for a Clinical Ethics Assessment * THE CASES * A Religious Objection to a Blood Transfusion * Determining Whether a Patient Has Decisional Capacity * Urgent Surgery in a Stuporous Patient: The Use and Limitations of Advance Directives * Management of Life-Threatening Illness: An Intensive Care Unit Patient with Uncertain Decisional Capacity * Don't Tell Mother: Withholding Information from a Patient * You Know Best: A Patient Who Wants His Physician to Decide * Painful Treatment for a Severely Retarded Man * Withdrawing Mechanical Ventilation at the Request of a Patient with Decisional Capacity * Withholding Tube Feeding in a Woman with Advanced Dementia * A Religious Objection to the Determination of Brain Death * A Teenager with Prolonged Unconsciousness * Resuscitation Decision in a Patient with Lung Cancer * A Dispute over DNR Status in a Patient Who Wants Palliative Surgery * Suicide Risk in a Managed Care Patient * Assisted Suicide in a Man with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis * A Married Man Contracts Syphilis * A House-Bound Woman With Tuberculosis * Surgical Delay in a Patient Infected with HIV * An Elderly Driver * A Difficult Patient and the Limits of Provider Obligations * Do Everything: Physician Obligations in the Face of Family Demands * A Man with Alcoholic Cirrhosis Wants a Liver Transplant * Genetic Counseling of a Woman with a Family History of Breast Cancer * Assisted Reproduction in a Woman with Strong Religious Beliefs * Prenatal Counseling of the Pregnant Woman at Risk for HIV Infection * A Pregnant Woman Using Cocaine * Tracheoesophageal Fistula in a Newborn with Down Syndrome * Determination of Death in a Newborn * A Religious Objection to a Child's Medical Treatment * A Teenager Who Wants Cosmetic Surgery * An Adolescent with Cancer Who Wants to Discontinue Medical Treatment * Appendix * Index
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