Intensive Care Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession

Name: Intensive Care Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession
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ISBN: 9780226996356

ISBN-10: 0226996352

ISBN-13: 9780226996356

Edition: 1992

Authors: Robert Zussman

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In riveting case studies, Robert Zussman describes how medical decisions in ICUs are considered and reconsidered, made and remade, negotiated and renegotiated. He concentrates on the practice of medical ethics, on the ways in which right and wrong are interpreted and used in the ward--how definitions of right and wrong emerge from the social situations of patients, families, doctors, and nurses and from the workings of hospitals and the courts. His book is a portrait of the way careful planning is undermined by the unpredictability of illness and the persistence of self-interest, by high principle and curious compromise.

Book details

Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession



Intensive Care



The Moral Order of Intensive Care



The Patient



Doctors: The Banality of Heroism



The Nurse's Dilemma



Patienthood and the Culture of Rights



Patients and Families



Medical Ethics: Triage and the Limitation of Treatment



"Penguins in the Basement"



Uncertainty, the Social Organization of Medicine, and Limitation of Treatment



Withholding, Withdrawing, and the "Terminal" Patient



Ethics, Families, and Technical Reason



The "Do Not Resuscitate" Order as Ritual



"A Legal Thing"



The Last Bed 15: Medicine's Two Cultures



On Method


General Index


Index of Doctors, Nurses, Patients, and Families of Patients