| Description |
xvii, 240 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Paternalism in the Therapeutic Relationship -- 1.1. Ambivalence Toward Electroconvulsive Therapy -- 1.2. Treatment Refusal in the Medical Intensive Care Unit -- 1.3. An Uncooperative Leukemia Patient -- 1.4. Rehabilitation of a Dependent Patient -- 1.5. Alternative Approaches to Informed Consent -- 1.6. Previous Refusal of Treatment by a Presently Comatose Patient -- 1.7. A Family's Refusal of Blood Transfusions for a Mother and Her Son -- 1.8. Deciding Whether to Discharge a Suicidal Patient -- 1.9. A Request for Sex-Reassigning Surgery -- 1.10. Divulging Information Concerning an Infant's Condition -- 2. Duties to Patient and Family -- 2.1. A Daughter's Insistence on Aggressive Treatment -- 2.2. Parental Refusal of Cancer Treatment on Religious Grounds -- 2.3. Informed Consent and the Dying Adolescent -- 2.4. Treatment Refusal for an Infant with Possible Brain Damage -- 2.5. Venereal Disease and Adolescent Confidentiality -- 2.6. Contraceptives for an Adolescent -- 2.7. Request for Abortion for a Retarded Daughter -- 2.8. Request for Hysterectomy for a Retarded Eleven-Year-Old -- 2.9. Conflict About Maintaining a Brain-Dead Woman for the Sake of Her Fetus -- 2.10. Choosing the Method of Delivery for a Fetus with Hydrocephalus -- 3. Deciding for Others -- 3.1. A Bedridden and Cognitively Impaired Elderly Patient -- 3.2. Who Should Decide for a Patient in Persistent Vegetative State? -- 3.3. Nasogastric Tube Feedings for an Elderly Stroke Patient -- 3.4. A Prolonged Stay in the Neonatal ICU -- 3.5. Deciding Treatment When the Preliminary Diagnosis is Trisomy 18 -- 3.6. Risk/Benefit Assessment of Surgery for a Child Suffering from Strokes -- 3.7. Responding to a Family's Decision for Laetrile -- 3.8. Selecting Therapy for a Mentally Retarded Teenager -- 3.9. Birth Control for a Retarded Woman -- 3.10. A Family's Lack of Commitment -- 4. Medical Research Involving Human Subjects -- 4.1. Limited Consent in Alcoholism Research -- 4.2. Disclosure of Preliminary Results in a Randomized Clinical Trial -- 4.3. Constraints on Consent in a Phase I Clinical Trial -- 4.4. Proxy Consent for Incompetent Trauma Patients -- 4.5. Undue Inducement in the Recruitment of Research Subjects -- 4.6. Nontherapeutic Research Procedures Involving Children -- 4.7. Discomfort from Repeated Nontherapeutic Research Procedures Involving Competent Adults -- 4.8. Physicians' Treatment Preferences and Recruitment of Subjects for a Randomized Clinical Trial -- 4.9. Parental Preferences and a Child's Involvement in a Randomized Clinical Trial -- 4.10. Compensating Research Injuries -- 5. Physicians, Third Parties, and Society -- 5.1. Request for Surgery the Physician Considers Unnecessary -- 5.2. Providing Free Care -- 5.3. Risk of Litigation as a Factor in Decision Making -- 5.4. Pressures to Provide Customary Care -- 5.5. Confidentiality and Child Abuse -- 5.6. Rejection of a Consultant's Advice -- 5.7. Abortion Resulting in a Live Birth -- 5.8. Costly Nutrition for a Terminal Patient -- 5.9. Cost Factors in the Choice of Treatment for Kidney Stone Disease -- 5.10. Artificial Insemination for a Single Woman -- Topical Index to Cases |
| Summary |
Paternalism in the therapeutic relationship -- Duties to patient and family -- Deciding for others -- Medical research involving human subjects -- Physicians, third parties, and society |
| Analysis |
Medicine Ethics |
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Medicine Ethical aspects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical ethics -- Case studies.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Case Reports.
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Case studies.
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| Author |
Strong, Carson, author
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| LC no. |
89003206 |
| ISBN |
0195039165 (alk. paper) |
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0195039173 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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