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Practical decision making in health care ethics : cases and concepts

Title
Practical decision making in health care ethics : cases and concepts / Raymond J. Devettere.
Author
Devettere, Raymond J.
Publication
Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2000.

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Description
xxi, 639 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
1. What Is Ethics? -- 2. Prudence and Living A Good Life -- 3. The Language of Health Care Ethics -- 4. Making Health Care Decisions -- 5. Deciding for Others -- 6. Determining Life and Death -- 7. Life-Sustaining Treatments -- 8. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation -- 9. Medical Nutrition and Hydration -- 10. Reproductive Issues -- 11. Prenatal Life -- 12. Neonatal Life -- 13. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- 14. Medical Research -- 15. Transplantation -- 16. Medical Genetics -- 17. Managed Care.
ISBN
0878407634 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99038611
OCLC
  • 41885975
  • ocm41885975
  • SCSB-4788303
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries