Medical ethics : applying theories and principles to the patient encounter /

Medical ethics : applying theories and principles to the patient encounter / edited by Matt Weinberg ; with a foreword by Arthur Caplan. - Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001. - 576 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

part. 1. Thinking About Ethical Issues in Health Care.

part. 2. Caring For Geriatric Patients.

part. 3. Care at the End of Life.

part 4. Patients, families, and health-care decisions

part 5. Pain management and palliative care

part 6. The role of relationships in health care

part 7. Health law

part 8. HIV/AIDS

part 9. Caring for severely compromised newborns

part 10. Issues in transplantation

part 11. Issues in managed care

part 12. Issues in resource allocation

part 13. Organizational ethics

part 14. Issues in genetic testing

part 15. Issues in clinical integrity

part 16. Issues in professionalism




1573926523 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781573926522


Medical ethics--Study and teaching--United States.
Medical ethics--United States--Examinations, questions, etc.
Correspondence schools and courses--United States.

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