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• Title:Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lo, Bernard.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2000.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .L622 2000
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Medical.
  Decision Making.
  Life Support Care.
  Physician-Patient Relations.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780781722193
  0781722195
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care
  Ch. 2. Overview of ethical guidelines
  Ch. 3. Informed consent
  Ch. 4. Promoting the patient's best interests: responding to patient's refusals of beneficial interventions
  Ch. 5. Confidentiality
  Ch. 6. Avoiding deception and nondisclosure
  Ch. 7. Keeping promises
  Ch. 8. An approach to decisions about clinical interventions
  Ch. 9. Futile interventions
  Ch. 10. Decision-making capacity
  Ch. 11. Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients
  Ch. 12. Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity
  Ch. 13. Surrogate decision-making
  Ch. 14. Confusing ethical distinctions
  Ch. 15. Patient or surrogate insistence on life-sustaining interventions
  Ch. 16. Physician insistence on life-sustaining interventions
  Ch. 17. Ethics committees and case consultations
  Ch. 18 . Do not resuscitate orders
  Ch. 19. Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia
  Ch. 20. Tube and intravenous feedings. Ch. 21. The persistent vegetative state
  Ch. 22. Determination of death
  Ch. 23. Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions
  Ch. 24. Myths about the law on life-sustaining interventions
  Ch. 25. Overview of the doctor-patient relationship
  Ch. 26. Refusal to care for patients
  Ch. 27. Gifts from patients to physicians
  Ch. 28. Sexual contact between physicians and patients
  Ch. 29. Secret information about patients
  Ch. 30. Clinical research
  Ch. 31. Overview of conflicts of interest
  Ch. 32. Bedside rationing of health care
  Ch. 33. Incentives for physicians to increase services
  Ch. 34. Incentives for physicians to decreases services
  Ch. 35. Gifts from drug companies
  Ch. 36. Disclosing mistakes
  Ch. 37. Impaired colleagues
  Ch. 38. Ethical dilemmas facing students and house staff
  Ch. 39. Ethical issues in pediatrics
  Ch. 40. Ethical issues in surgery
  Ch. 41. Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology
  Ch. 42. Ethical issues in psychiatry
  Ch. 43. Transmission of HIV infection in health care settings
  Ch. 44. Ethical issues in organ transplantation
  Ch. 45. Testing for genetic conditions.