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Author Katz, Jay, author

Title Catastrophic diseases : who decides what? / Jay Katz
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Contents Part, 1 Facts and Values -- chapter 1 Introduction to the Issues -- chapter 2 Analytical Framework -- chapter 3 The Role of Goals and Values -- chapter 4 The Development and Current Status of the Procedures -- part, 2 Description of Participants- an Interactional Portrait -- part, 3 Stages of Decisionmaking-Proposals and Recommendations -- chapter 5 The Authority and Capacity of Physician-Investigators -- chapter 6 The Authority and Capacity of Patient-Subjects -- chapter 7 The Authority and Capacity of Professional and Public Institutions
Summary "An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process."--Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2021)
Subject Medical innovations -- Social aspects.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects.
Hemodialysis -- Social aspects.
Medical ethics.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Medical policy -- United States
Ethics, Medical
Human Experimentation
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Hemodialysis -- Social aspects.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Medical ethics.
Medical innovations -- Social aspects.
Medical policy.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Capron, Alexander Morgan
ISBN 9781351318402
1351318403