| Description |
xvi, 303 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Human values, ethics, and health care decision making -- An overview of ethical theory -- Situation assessment procedure : the process of ethical decision making -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Communication in health care : information, deception, and informed consent -- Decisions for others : proxy consent and paternalism -- Persons, caring, and community : the ethical basis for health care -- Selected readings. Competency in medical care / Daniel Callahan -- The context as a moral rule in medical ethics / David C. Thomasma -- Are nurses' mind sets compatible with ethical practice? / Mila Ann Aroskar -- The legal and philosophical foundations of the right to privacy / Richard Wasserstrom -- Ethics : Nurse, am I going to live? / Diana G. French -- Disclosure of information to adult cancer patients : issues and updates / Richard J. Goldberg -- Informed (but uneducated) consent / F.J. Ingelfinger -- Parentalism / M. Benjamin and J. Curtis -- Autonomy and paternalism : two goals in conflict / Elias S. Cohen -- The "right" not to know / David E. Ost -- Allocating autonomy : can patients and practitioners share? / Sally Gadow -- Two philosophies of caring / D. Gary Benfield -- Why care about caring? / Nel Noddings -- What is medical ethics? / K. Danner Clouser -- Appendix : selected professional codes of ethics |
| Analysis |
Medicine Ethics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Medical care -- Decision making -- Case studies.
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Medical care -- Decision making -- Philosophy.
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Medical ethics -- Case studies.
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Medical ethics -- Philosophy.
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Medical ethics.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Philosophy, Medical.
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| LC no. |
86018590 |
| ISBN |
0070720762 (paperback) |
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