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• Title:Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine / Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade.
  
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• Author/Creator:Jonsen, Albert R.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Siegler, Mark, 1941-
  Winslade, William J.
  
• Published/Created:New York : McGraw Hill, Medical Pub. Division, ©2002.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .J655 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: W50 .J655 2002
    
  • Number of Items:4
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Medical ethics--Case studies.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Medical.
  Decision Making.
  
• Genre/Form:Case studies.
  
• Edition:5th ed.
  
• Description:vi, 202 pages ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:Shows health care professionals how to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine, using the Four-Box Method ( medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). The Fifth Edition emphasizes evidence-based medicine, and explores new issues in treatment and research.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:0071387633 (softcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Four Topics: Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics
  Four Topics Chart
  Ch. 1. Indications for Medical Intervention
  1.1. Inappropriate Interventions
  1.2. Orders not to Attempt Resuscitation
  1.3. Care of the Dying Patient
  1.4. Legal Implications of Forgoing Treatment
  1.5. Determination of Death
  Ch. 2. Preferences of Patients
  2.1. Informed Consent
  2.2. Decisional Capacity
  2.3. Beliefs due to Religious and Cultural Diversity
  2.4. Truthful Communication
  2.5. Competent Refusal of Treatment
  2.6. Advance Planning
  2.7. Decision-Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient
  2.8. Limits of Patient Preferences
  2.9. Failure to Cooperate with Medical Recommendations
  2.10. Alternative Medicine
  Ch. 3. Quality of Life
  3.1. Enhancing Quality of Life
  3.2. Objective Criteria for Quality of Life
  3.3. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
  3.4. Suicide
  Ch. 4. Contextual Features
  4.1. Role of Interested Parties
  4.2. Physician Confidentiality
  4.3. Economics of Health Care
  4.4. Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
  4.5. Religion
  4.6. Role of the Law in Clinical Ethics
  4.7. Clinical Research
  4.8. Clinical Teaching
  4.9. Occupational Medicine
  4.10. Public Health
  4.11. Ethics Committees
  4.12. Ethics Consultation.