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1 online resource (264 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Preface to the Paperback Edition; 1. INTRODUCTION; Redefinition of Dying and Death: A Source of Controversy; Normative Criteria for Medical Decision-Making; Origins of Popular Interest in Dying and Death; Decisions to Treat Critically Ill Patients: Social vs. Medical Considerations; 2. CONTROVERSY AND THE CLINICAL MENTALITY: SOME METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR EFFECTS; The Clinical Mentality and Medical Decision-Making; Perceptions of Controversy and the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients |
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Development of Questionnaires and ScalesDesign of Samples; PART I: CRITERIA FOR DECISION-MAKING; 3. DECISIONS TO TREAT CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS: SOCIAL VERSUS MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS; The Case Histories: An Overview of the Patients; Prognosis and Type of Damage; The Role of the Patient and his Family; Social Potential versus Social Value; Acute versus Chronic Illness: Emergence of New Norms; 4. THE TERMINAL PATIENT: TREATMENT OF THE DYING AND THE DEAD; The Terminal Phase; Terminal Acts: Euthanasia and Definitions of Death; Decisions to Reverse Death: Norms Concerning Resuscitation; Conclusion |
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5. DECISION-MAKING VIEWED THROUGH HOSPITAL RECORDSCritically Ill Patients in the Hospital Records: Research Design and Data Collection; Treatment of Critically Ill Patients: Hospital Records versus Questionnaires; Non-Private Service Patients: Observations of Treatment; Mongoloid Children with Heart Defects: Hospital Records; Conclusion; PART II: SOURCES OF VARIATION AMONG PHYSICIANS: SOME ORGANIZATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL VARIABLES; 6. CONTEXT FOR DECISION-MAKING: THE HOSPITAL SETTING; Type of Hospital Setting and Quality of Patient Care: A Review of the Literature |
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Medical School Affiliation and the Care of Critically Ill PatientsEffects of Hospital Settings: Some Explanations; Physicians versus Residents: Two Medical Cultures?; Colleague Consensus and Decision-Making in Surgery; Departmental Policy and Decision-Making in Internal Medicine; Departmental Policy and Decision-Making in Pediatrics; Conclusion; 7. THE ACTIVE PHYSICIAN: CULTURAL INFLUENCES UPON MEDICAL DECISIONS; Religious Prescriptions toward Dying, Death and the Newborn; Religious Affiliation and Religiosity in the Four Medical Specialties; Religion, Religiosity, and the Adult Patient |
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Religion, Religiosity and the InfantCultural and Religious Attitudes Toward the Medical Role; A Note on Age, Social Class, and Sex Differences; The Active Physician; Conclusion; 8. DEPARTMENTAL DYNAMICS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; Ethical Issues in Cancer Chemotherapy Research; Social Organization and Ethical Experimentation: Ward I; Social Organization and Ethical Experimentation: Ward II; Social Organization and Ethical Codes; Ethical Treatment of Unsalvageable Patients; Conclusion; 9. CONCLUSION; Summary of Findings Concerning the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients |
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Social Control Over Medical Care for the Critically Ill Patient: Some Recommendations |
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Print version record |
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Critical care medicine-Decision making
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Critical care medicine -- Social aspects.
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Physicians -- Psychology.
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Terminal care -- Social aspects.
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Critical care medicine -- Decision making
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Critical care medicine -- Social aspects
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Physicians -- Psychology
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Terminal care -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351474696 |
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1351474693 |
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