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