Tough Decisions
"This book is indispensible for young doctors, interns, and other medical staff."--The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter 2002
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780195090420
- Utgave
- 2. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"This book is indispensible for young doctors, interns, and other medical staff."--The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter 2002