Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics - Couverture rigide

Freeman, John; McDonnell, Kevin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195090411 ISBN 13 : 9780195090413

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Freeman MD John M McDonnell MD Kevin

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Life is full of tough decisions that must be made ethically and under the pressures of time. This book places readers in realistic situation where they experience the difficulties of making tough medical decisions. The cases are composites of actual cases the authors have seen or managed. In the role of decision-maker, the reader helps to determine what happens in the case as his or her decision often shapes the course of events and the patient's outcome. This gives a compelling sense of the pressures that bear on clinical decision-making. The authors assume that the reader wants to do the right thing, but faces the problem of determining what the right thing will be when information is necessarily incomplete and the future unknown. Ethical theory emerges as others involved in the case offer different views of what is right in a particular medical situation. Two concluding chapters discuss the major theories of medical ethics, but there are no answers in the back of the book. Instead, the book will familiarize readers with some of the ethical principles and issues critical to the practice of medicine to patients and their families.

Biographie de l'auteur

John Freeman is at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Kevin McDonnell is at Saint Mary's College.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0195090411
• ISBN 13: 9780195090413
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 244