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| List of contributors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Live and learn: courage, honesty, and vulnerability | |
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| Starting at the beginning: prenatal and neonatal issues | |
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| Quality of life - and of ethics consultation - in the NICU | |
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| When a baby dies in pain | |
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| But how can we choose? | |
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| Maternal-fetal surgery and the "profoundest question in ethics" | |
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| The most vulnerable of us: pediatrics | |
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| She was the life of the party | |
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| The sound of chains | |
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| Susie's voice | |
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| Access to an infant's family: lingering effects of not talking with parents | |
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| Diversity of desires and limits of liberty: psychiatric and psychological issues | |
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| Helping staff help a "hateful" patient: the case of TJ | |
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| Ulysses contract | |
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| Misjudging needs: a messy spiral of complexity | |
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| When the patient refuses to eat | |
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| Withholding therapy with a twist | |
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| Listening to the husband | |
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| You're the ethicist; I'm just the surgeon | |
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| Haunted by a good outcome: the case of Sister Jane | |
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| Is a broken jaw a terminal condition? | |
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| The unspeakable/unassailable: religious and cultural beliefs | |
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| Adolescent pregnancy, confidentiality, and culture | |
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| "Tanya, the one with Jonathan's kidney": a living unrelated donor case of church associates | |
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| Futility, Islam, and death | |
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| Suffering as God's will | |
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| Human guinea pigs and miracles: clinical innovations and unorthodox treatment | |
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| Amputate my arm, please. I don't want it anymore | |
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| Feuding surrogates, herbal therapies, and a dying patient | |
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| One way out: destination therapy by default | |
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| Altruistic organ donation: Credible? Acceptable? | |
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| The big picture: organizational issues | |
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| It's not my responsibility | |
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| Intra-operative exposure to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: to disclose or not to disclose | |
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| Why do we have to discharge this patient? | |
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| Who's that sleeping in my bed? An institutional response to an organizational ethics problem | |
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| Conclusions, educational activities, and references | |
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| Index | |