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Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Medicine. A Physician’s Viewpoint

Author: Loewy, Erich
SKU: PMRT.GEN.1338.03287

$282.05

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780889461338
Publication Date: 1986
Condition: New

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A series of essays, written by a practicing physician, on a wide variety of topics in medical ethics: clinical uncertainty; moral pluralism; paternalism; AIDS; organ procurement; physicians’ involvement in executions; abortion; age as a factor in medical decision-making; sustaining life in a permanently acognitive patient; dementia; disagreement among patient, family, and physician; withholding nutritional support for the hopelessly ill; and the matter of who decides to write a DNR (do not resuscitate) order.

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