Paternalism in the Therapeutic Relationship | |
Ambivalence Toward Electroconvulsive Therapy | |
Treatment Refusal in the Medical Intensive Care Unit | |
An Uncooperative Leukemia Patient | |
Rehabilitation of a Dependent Patient | |
Alternative Approaches to Informed Consent | |
Previous Refusal of Treatment by a Presently Comatose Patient | |
A Family's Refusal of Blood Transfusions for a Mother and Her Son | |
Deciding Whether to Discharge a Suicidal Patient | |
A Request for Sex-Reassigning Surgery | |
Divulging Information Concerning an Infant's Condition | |
Duties to Patient and Family | |
A Daughter's Insistence on Aggressive Treatment | |
Parental Refusal of Cancer Treatment on Religious Grounds | |
Informed Consent and the Dying Adolescent | |
Treatment Refusal for an Infant with Possible Brain Damage | |
Venereal Disease and Adolescent Confidentiality | |
Contraceptives for an Adolescent | |
Request for Abortion for a Retarded Daughter | |
Request for Hysterectomy for a Retarded Eleven-Year-Old | |
Conflict About Maintaining a Brain-Dead Woman for the Sake of Her Fetus | |
Choosing the Method of Delivery for a Fetus with Hydrocephalus | |
Deciding for Others | |
A Bedridden and Cognitively Impaired Elderly Patient | |
Who Should Decide for a Patient in Persistent Vegetative State? | |
Nasogastric Tube Feedings for an Elderly Stroke Patient | |
A Prolonged Stay in the Neonatal ICU | |
Deciding Treatment When the Preliminary Diagnosis is Trisomy 18 | |
Risk/Benefit Assessment of Surgery for a Child Suffering from Strokes | |
Responding to a Family's Decision for Laetrile | |
Selecting Therapy for a Mentally Retarded Teenager | |
Birth Control for a Retarded Woman | |
A Family's Lack of Commitment | |
Medical Research Involving Human Subjects | |
Limited Consent in Alcoholism Research | |
Disclosure of Preliminary Results in a Randomized Clinical Trial | |
Constraints on Consent in a Phase I Clinical Trial | |
Proxy Consent for Incompetent Trauma Patients | |
Undue Inducement in the Recruitment of Research Subjects | |
Nontherapeutic Research Procedures Involving Children | |
Discomfort from Repeated Nontherapeutic Research Procedures Involving Competent Adults | |
Physicians' Treatment Preferences and Recruitment of Subjects for a Randomized Clinical Trial | |
Parental Preferences and a Child's Involvement in a Randomized Clinical Trial | |
Compensating Research Injuries | |
Physicians, Third Parties, and Society | |
Request for Surgery the Physician Considers Unnecessary | |
Providing Free Care | |
Risk of Litigation as a Factor in Decision Making | |
Pressures to Provide Customary Care | |
Confidentiality and Child Abuse | |
Rejection of a Consultant's Advice | |
Abortion Resulting in a Live Birth | |
Costly Nutrition for a Terminal Patient | |
Cost Factors in the Choice of Treatment for Kidney Stone Disease | |
Artificial Insemination for a Single Woman | |
Topical Index to Cases | |
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