Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts - Softcover

Devettere, Raymond J.

 
9780878407637: Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0878407634 ISBN 13: 9780878407637
Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This edition includes chapters on managed care and medical genetics, as well as an expanded chapter on virtue and decision making. It updates accounts of controversies, including late-term abortion, cloning, germ-line genetic research, the human genome project, brain death, non-heart beating organ donors, and physician-assisted suicide. Case studies, drawn from landmark public cases, illustrate such issues as medical futility, genetic screening, AIDS research, managed-care mix-ups, and the ignoring of patients' wishes by doctors.

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This edition includes chapters on managed care and medical genetics, as well as an expanded chapter on virtue and decision making. It updates accounts of controversies, including late-term abortion, cloning, germ-line genetic research, the human genome project, brain death, non-heart beating organ donors, and physician-assisted suicide. Case studies, drawn from landmark public cases, illustrate such issues as medical futility, genetic screening, AIDS research, managed-care mix-ups, and the ignoring of patients' wishes by doctors.

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Verlag
Georgetown University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0878407634
ISBN 13 
9780878407637
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
656
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