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Ethics in Clinical Practice, Second Edition

Author(s): Judith Ahronheim, MD
Jonathan Moreno, PhD
Connie Zuckerman, JD
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763729455
  • ISBN-10:0763729450
  • Hardcover    508 pages      © 2000
Price: International Sales $125.95 US List
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Ethics in Clinical Practice, Second Edition continues to focus on multidisciplinary medicine and how ethical dilemmas affect not only doctors and patients, but also nurses, social workers, members of ethics committees, hospital attorneys, administrators, and others. Greater attention is given to care in a variety of settings and across settings. Cases reflect the managed care phenomenon and cost containment, demographic changes, the electronic revolution, and the ethical dilemmas resulting from this new climate. The revised edition discusses advances in palliative medicine and its availability, and includes new data regarding attitudes and prevalence of physician-assisted suicide. Attention is given to how issues of cost containment might directly or indirectly influence patients' end-of-life treatment options. Cases are updated to include pertinent information about medical advances and legal developments, and how ethical analysis reflects these new developments.

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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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Judith Ahronheim, MD

Jonathan Moreno, PhD

Connie Zuckerman, JD

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