Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.

Author/creator Lo, Bernard
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2000.
Descriptionxii, 369 pages ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents Ch. 1. An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care -- Ch. 2. Overview of ethical guidelines -- Ch. 3. Informed consent -- Ch. 4. Promoting the patient's best interests: responding to patient's refusals of beneficial interventions -- Ch. 5. Confidentiality -- Ch. 6. Avoiding deceptionand nondisclosure -- Ch. 7. Keeping promises -- Ch. 8. An approach to decisionsabout clinical interventions -- Ch. 9. Futile interventions -- Ch. 10. Decision-making capacity -- Ch. 11. Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients -- Ch. 12. Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity -- Ch. 13. Surrogate decision-making -- Ch. 14. Confusing ethical distinctions -- Ch. 15. Patient or surrogate insistence on life-sustaining interventions -- Ch. 16. Physician insistence on life-sustaining interventions -- Ch. 17. Ethics committees and case consultations --Ch. 18 . Do not resuscitate orders -- Ch. 19. Physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia -- Ch. 20. Tube and intravenous feedings.
Contents Ch. 21. The persistent vegetative state -- Ch. 22. Determination of death -- Ch. 23. Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions -- Ch. 24. Myths about the law on life-sustaining interventions -- Ch. 25. Overview of the doctor-patient relationship -- Ch. 26. Refusal to care for patients -- Ch. 27. Gifts from patients to physicians -- Ch. 28. Sexual contactbetween physicians and patients -- Ch. 29. Secret information about patients -- Ch. 30. Clinical research -- Ch. 31. Overview of conflicts of interest -- Ch. 32. Bedside rationing of health care -- Ch. 33. Incentives for Physicians in increase services -- Ch. 34. Incentives for physicians to decreases services -- Ch. 35. Gifts from drug companies -- Ch. 36. Disclosing mistakes -- Ch. 37. Impaired colleagues -- Ch. 38. Ethical dilemmafacing students and house staff -- Ch. 39. Ethical issues in pediatrics -- Ch. 40. Ethical issues in surgery -- Ch. 41. Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology -- Ch. 42. Ethical issues in psychiatry -- Ch. 43. Transmission of HIV infection in health care settings -- Ch. 44. Ethical issues in organ transplantation -- Ch. 45. Testing for genetic conditions.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99059588
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