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    Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine / edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.

    • Title:Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine / edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Rubin, Susan B., 1962-
      Zoloth, Laurie.
    • Published/Created:Hagerstown, Md. : University Pub. Group, ©2000.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects: Medical ethics.
      Medical errors.
    • Medical Subjects:Medical Errors.
      Patient Care.
      Ethics, Medical.
      Professional-Patient Relations.
    • Description:x, 374 pages ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Ethics in clinical medicine series.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:1555720536 (paper)
    • Contents:Introduction: In the Margins of the Margin / Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth
      Pt. 1. Conception and Perception of Error
      1. Framing Our Mistakes / Tod Chambers
      2. To Err Is Human: American Culture, History, and Medical Error / Kenneth De Ville and Carl Elliott
      3. Life-Long Error, or John Marcher the Proleptic / Rita Charon
      4. Humility Reconsidered / Judith Andre
      5. Mistakes in Context / John D. Lantos and Martha Montello
      Pt. 2. Error in Medical Practice
      6. Facing Our Mistakes / David Hilfiker
      7. Error in Medicine / Lucian L. Leape
      8. Mistakes in Medicine: Personal and Moral Responses / Joel E. Frader
      9. Learning to Keep a Cautious Tongue: The Reporting of Mistakes in Neurosurgery, 1890 to 1930 / Rosa Lynn Pinkus
      10. Rush from Judgment / James Lindemann Nelson
      11. How Should Ethics Consultants Respond When Careproviders Have Made or May Have Made a Mistake? Beware of Ethical Fly Paper! / Edmund G. Howe
      12. Taking Responsibility for Medical Mistakes / Virginia A. Sharpe
      Pt. 3. Error in Ethics Consultation
      13. Dead Wrong: Error in Clinical Ethics Consultation / Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth
      14. Moral Residue / George C. Webster and Francoise E. Baylis
      15. Quality and Error in Bioethics Consultation: A Puzzle in Pieces / Paul J. Reitemeier
      16. Errors in Ethics Consultation / Ellen W. Bernal
      17. Margin of Error: The Sociology of Ethics Consultation / Charles L. Bosk
      18. Ethics Consultation and the Law: What Is the Standard of Care? / Robert S. Olick
      19. Continuous Quality Improvement in Case Reviews Facilitated by Hospital Ethics Committees / Bruce E. Zawacki and William May
      20. Why Medical Ethicists Don't (and Won't) Share Uncertainty / Giles R. Scofield
      21. Errors in Healthcare Ethics Consultation / John C. Fletcher, Robert J. Boyle and Edward M. Spencer.
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