Tough decisions : cases in medical ethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Freeman, John Mark. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 223 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208670 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 223 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 211). |
| ISBN: | 9780199759668 0199759669 0195090411 9780195090413 019509042X 9780195090420 1280760516 9781280760518 9786610760510 6610760519 |