Tough Decisions: Cases in Medical Ethics
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Book Overview
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. The cases are composites of actual cases the authors have seen or managed. In the role of decision-maker, the reader helps to determine what happens in the case as his or her decision often shapes the course of events and the patient's outcome. This gives 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195090411
ISBN13:9780195090413
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book was delivered promptly and the condition was as stated in their ad. Thanks.
Engaging and Readable
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Tough Decisions is an outstanding book made even better in this long awaited second edition.Unlike most collections of case studies, this volume does not simply present a variety of vignettes to be analyzed and evaluated. Instead, the reader is required to actually make tough decisions and then follow up on the consequences. Decisions often lead to further decisions and then still further decisions. Different readers will thus follow different paths through the text. The situations themselves are realistically described and include multidimensional characters and well-written dialogue. The cases will provide a rich basis for discussion if this is used as a classroom text, but this is also an engaging and readable book for anyone interested in the tough decisions faced in healthcare every day.
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