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Zusatztext The extensive case discussions and the thoroughness both of the topics as well as analyses! make this an ideal casebook for ethics eommittee study. Informationen zum Autor Terrence F. Ackerman, Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman, Department of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis. He is co-editor of Clinical Medical Ethics: Exploration and Assessment (University Press of America, 1987). Carson Strong, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Values and Ethics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis. Klappentext Should a brain-dead woman be artificially maintained for the sake of her fetus? Does a physician have the right to administer a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's beliefs? Can a family request a hysterectomy for their retarded daughter? Physicians are facing moral dilemmas with increasing frequency. But how should these delicate questions be resolved and by whom? A Casebook of Medical Ethics offers a real-life view of the central issues involved in clinical medical ethics. Since the analysis of cases plays a critical role in this study, the authors have assembled a broad collection of histories encountered in their work as medical ethics educators and consultants. The cases are developed in substantial detail to reflect the rich medical and psychosocial complexity involved, and each is brought to a decision point at which a course of action must be chosen. The book includes commentaries that combine general discussion of ethical principles with specific analysis of the cases examined in the text, as well as various options for resolving conflicts. Readers are invited to assess the comparative merits and liabilities of these approaches. Zusammenfassung Should a brain-dead woman be artificially maintained for the sake of her fetus? Does a physician have the right to administer a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's beliefs? Can a family request a hysterectomy for their retarded daughter? Physicians are facing moral dilemmas with increasing frequency. But how should these delicate questions be resolved and by whom?A Casebook of Medical Ethics offers a real-life view of the central issues involved in clinical medical ethics. Since the analysis of cases plays a critical role in this study, the authors have assembled a broad collection of histories encountered in their work as medical ethics educators and consultants. The cases are developed in substantial detail to reflect the rich medical and psychosocial complexity involved, and each is brought to a decision point at which a course of action must be chosen.The book includes commentaries that combine general discussion of ethical principles with specific analysis of the cases examined in the text, as well as various options for resolving conflicts. Readers are invited to assess the comparative merits and liabilities of these approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Paternalism in the Therapeutic Relationship 1.1: Ambivalence Toward Electroconvulsive Therapy 1.2: Treatment Refusal in the Medical Intensive Care Unit 1.3: An Uncooperative Leukemia Patient 1.4: Rehabilitation of a Dependent Patient 1.5: Alternative Approaches to Informed Consent 1.6: Previous Refusal of Treatment by a Presently Comatose Patient 1.7: A Family's Refusal of Blood Transfusions for a Mother and Her Son 1.8: Deciding Whether to Discharge a Suicidal Patient 1.9: A Request for Sex-Reassigning Surgery 1.10: Divulging Information Concerning an Infant's Condition 2: Duties to Patient and Family 2.1: A Daughter's Insistence on Aggressive Treatment 2.2: Parental Refusal of Cancer Treatment on Religious Grounds 2.3: Informed Consent and the Dying Adolescent 2.4: Treatment Refusal for an Infant with Possible Brain Damage 2.5: Venereal Disease and Adolescent Confidentiality
