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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, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2010.

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Description
xviii, 510 p.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Decision making
  • Medical ethics > Case studies
  • Medical ethics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
What is ethics? -- Prudence and living a good life -- The language of health care ethics -- Making health care decisions -- Deciding for others -- Determining life and death -- Life-sustaining treatments -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Medical nutrition and hydration -- Reproductive issues -- Prenatal life -- Infants and children -- Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Medical research -- Transplantation -- Medical genetics -- Social and political issues.
ISBN
  • 9781589012516 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1589012518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009009046
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library