The healer's power /

The healer's power /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brody, Howard
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c1992.
Description:	xiii, 311 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Medical ethics Ethics, Medical Physician-Patient Relations Power (Psychology) Medical ethics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1323552

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ISBN:	0300051743
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. The Chief of Medicine
2. Medical Ethics and Power
3. The Dark Side of the Force: Clinical Examples
4. The Physician-Patient Relationship
5. Care versus Work
6. Informed Consent: Definition and Models
7. Informed Consent: Shared Power and Transparency
8. The Power to Control Information
9. The Rescue Fantasy
10. Substituted Judgment and Quality of Life
11. The Power to Determine Futility
12. Power and Cost Containment
13. The Physician's Income
14. The Social Power of Expert Healers
15. Power and Theories of Medical Ethics
16. The Physician's Character
17. Concluding Remarks
Appendix. "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," / Vonda McIntyre.