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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts

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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts - Devettere, Raymond J
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This edition includes chapters on managed care and medical genetics, as well as an expanded chapter on virtue and decision making. It updates accounts of controversies, including late-term abortion, cloning, germ-line genetic research, the human genome project, brain death, non-heart beating organ donors, and physician-assisted suicide. Case studies, drawn from landmark public cases, illustrate such issues as medical futility, genetic screening, AIDS research, managed-care mix-ups, and the ignoring of patients' wishes by ...

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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts 2000, Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC

ISBN-13: 9780878407637

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