Patient-Physician Relation - The Patient As Partner, Part 2

Klappentext Veatch proposes a postmodern medicine in which decisions about patient care will routinely involve both doctor and patient-not only in ethically complex cases such as the termination of life-sustaining treatment, but in everyday care as well. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I. The Foundations of the Patient-Physician Relation 1. Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age 2. Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal? 3. The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship 4. Values in Routine Medical Decisions 5. The Concept of "Medical Indications" 6. The Principles for Medical EthicsPart II. The Individual Professional-Patient Relation 7. Informed Consent: The Emergeing Norms 8. Malpractice in the Contract Mode 9. The Ethics of Generic Drug Use 10. Treatment INDs: The Right of Access to Experimental Drugs 11. Ethics of Drugs for Nonapproved Uses 12. When Should the Patient Know? The Death of the Therapeutic Privilege 13. An Unexpected Chronosome: Disclosure of Genetic Information 14. The Ethics of Dispensing Placebos 15. The Patient's Right of Access to Medical Records 16. The Limits of Confidentiality: The Case of the Homosexual Husband 17. Patients' Duties and Physicians' RightsPart III. The Social Professional-Patient Relation 18. Autonomy's Temporary Triumph: On the Alleged Conflict between Autonomy and Justice 19. DRGs and the Ethics of Cost Containment 20. Justice and Economics: Care of the Terminally Ill, Persistently Vegetative, and Elderly 21. Voluntary Risks to Health: The Ethical IssuesPart IV. Special Problem Areas 22. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation 23. The Technical Criteria Fallacy: The Case of Spina Bifida 24. Limits of Guardian Treament Refusal: A Reasonableness Standard 25. "Do Not Resuscitate" Orders: An Ethical Analysis 26. The Ethics of Institutional Ethics CommitteesPart V. The Future of the Partnership 27. Contemporary Bioethics and the Demise of Modern Medicine Notes Index...

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Foundations of the Patient-Physician Relation

1. Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age

2. Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal?

3. The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship

4. Values in Routine Medical Decisions

5. The Concept of "Medical Indications"

6. The Principles for Medical Ethics

Part II. The Individual Professional-Patient Relation

7. Informed Consent: The Emergeing Norms

8. Malpractice in the Contract Mode

9. The Ethics of Generic Drug Use

10. Treatment INDs: The Right of Access to Experimental Drugs

11. Ethics of Drugs for Nonapproved Uses

12. When Should the Patient Know? The Death of the Therapeutic Privilege

13. An Unexpected Chronosome: Disclosure of Genetic Information

14. The Ethics of Dispensing Placebos

15. The Patient's Right of Access to Medical Records

16. The Limits of Confidentiality: The Case of the Homosexual Husband

17. Patients' Duties and Physicians' Rights

Part III. The Social Professional-Patient Relation

18. Autonomy's Temporary Triumph: On the Alleged Conflict between Autonomy and Justice

19. DRGs and the Ethics of Cost Containment

20. Justice and Economics: Care of the Terminally Ill, Persistently Vegetative, and Elderly

21. Voluntary Risks to Health: The Ethical Issues

Part IV. Special Problem Areas

22. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation

23. The Technical Criteria Fallacy: The Case of Spina Bifida

24. Limits of Guardian Treament Refusal: A Reasonableness Standard

25. "Do Not Resuscitate" Orders: An Ethical Analysis

26. The Ethics of Institutional Ethics Committees

Part V. The Future of the Partnership

27. Contemporary Bioethics and the Demise of Modern Medicine

Notes

Index

About the author

Robert M. Veatch

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Veatch
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.1991
• EAN: 9780253362070
• ISBN: 978-0-253-36207-0
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Religion in North America; Medical Ethics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General