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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, ©2010.

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Description
xviii, 510 pages; 26 cm
Subject
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical ethics > Case studies
  • Decision making
  • Bioethics
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Bioethical Issues
  • Decision Making
  • Bioethics
  • decision making
  • Decision making
  • Medical ethics
Genre/Form
  • Case Reports
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
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
  • 1589012518
LCCN
2009009046
OCLC
  • ocn314597130
  • 314597130
  • SCSB-1539594
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library