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| Preface | |
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| What Is Different About this Casebook? | |
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| How Was the Casebook Developed? | |
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| What Features Are Included in the Casebook? | |
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| What About Confidentiality? | |
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| Acknowledgments and Participants | |
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| Consent and Competence | |
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| "He Doesn't Know What He's Saying" | |
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| Consent and the Elderly | |
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| Caring for the Indecisive Patient: No Longer Secret But Still a Problem | |
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| Withdrawing Treatment: Easier Said Than Done | |
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| It's the Simple Stuff: Ageism, Autonomy, and Provider Competence | |
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| Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making | |
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| "But She Said She Wanted Everything" | |
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| The Letter and Spirit of a Directive | |
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| Interpreting Advance Directives: The Problem of Partial Codes | |
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| When Wishes Are Not Heard | |
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| How Competent Need a Surrogate Be? | |
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| Advance Directives: Refusing Nutrition and Hydration | |
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| Does Asking Help? Problems With Pre-Hospital Advance Directives | |
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| Advance Directives and Pregnancy | |
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| Discharge Dilemmas | |
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| Negotiating Care for the Technologically Dependent Patient | |
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| No Good Way Out? | |
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| Family Autonomy and the Child's Best Interest | |
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| The Family in Medical Decision Making | |
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| What Does She Really Want? Coercion, Persuasion and Family Autonomy | |
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| Withdrawing Treatment and the Family's "Returning Hero" | |
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| Families and Hope | |
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| Restraints and the Family | |
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| Organizational and Institutional Ethics | |
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| A Memo About Our Mission | |
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| Who Pays? Hospital Coping Strategies in a Managed Care Environment | |
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| Who's in Charge? Managed Care and the Ethics Consultant | |
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| Rehabilitation Ethics | |
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| This Is Consent to Therapy? | |
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| Who's the Patient? | |
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| A New Rehab Ethics Committee "On The Prowl" | |
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| Professional Responsibility: Employers, Colleagues, and Others | |
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| Justice and Responsibility In Hiring Practices | |
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| Conflicts Among Physicians: Playing "Resident in the Middle" | |
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| In Whose Interest? Withholding the Truth From a Patient | |
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| AIDS: Problems of Confidentiality | |
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| Confidentiality and Caring | |
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| Confidentiality and the Duty to Warn | |
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| Teaching Case Presentations: Materials To Assist You | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |