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Overview"""Throughout the past two decades, when medical ethics has had a renaissance, Robert Veatch has been a leading contributor to its dialogue and advance. This collection of his work shows the breadth and the cogency of his thinking. . . . it is a book worth having."" —Journal of the American Medical Association "" . . . a fascinating dissection of almost every aspect of the doctor-patient relationship. . . . strongly recommended reading for all health care workers interested in this rapidly evolving field."" —Queen's Quarterly ""This outstanding discussion of important current medical issues is a valuable addition to academic and professional libraries."" —Choice "" . . . an important contribution to bioethics . . . certain to provoke controversy in the field."" —Medical Humanities Review ""Lucid and well-argued . . . "" —Religious Studies Review This book heralds the imminent demise of ""doctor knows best."" In it, Robert M. Veatch proposes a postmodern medicine in which decisions about patient care will routinely involve both doctor and patient—not only in ethically complex cases such as the termination of life-sustaining treatment, but in everyday care as well." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert M. VeatchPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.653kg ISBN: 9780253362070ISBN 10: 0253362075 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 22 January 1991 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Foundations of the Patient-Physician Relation 1. Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age 2. Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal? 3. The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship 4. Values in Routine Medical Decisions 5. The Concept of ""Medical Indications"" 6. The Principles for Medical Ethics Part II. The Individual Professional-Patient Relation 7. Informed Consent: The Emergeing Norms 8. Malpractice in the Contract Mode 9. The Ethics of Generic Drug Use 10. Treatment INDs: The Right of Access to Experimental Drugs 11. Ethics of Drugs for Nonapproved Uses 12. When Should the Patient Know? The Death of the Therapeutic Privilege 13. An Unexpected Chronosome: Disclosure of Genetic Information 14. The Ethics of Dispensing Placebos 15. The Patient's Right of Access to Medical Records 16. The Limits of Confidentiality: The Case of the Homosexual Husband 17. Patients' Duties and Physicians' Rights Part III. The Social Professional-Patient Relation 18. Autonomy's Temporary Triumph: On the Alleged Conflict between Autonomy and Justice 19. DRGs and the Ethics of Cost Containment 20. Justice and Economics: Care of the Terminally Ill, Persistently Vegetative, and Elderly 21. Voluntary Risks to Health: The Ethical Issues Part IV. Special Problem Areas 22. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation 23. The Technical Criteria Fallacy: The Case of Spina Bifida 24. Limits of Guardian Treament Refusal: A Reasonableness Standard 25. ""Do Not Resuscitate"" Orders: An Ethical Analysis 26. The Ethics of Institutional Ethics Committees Part V. The Future of the Partnership 27. Contemporary Bioethics and the Demise of Modern Medicine Notes Index"Reviews<p>Veatch, an eminent medical ethicist, addressed the concept of a contractual physician--patient relationship applied to research settings in The Patient as Partner: A Theory of Human--Experimentation Ethics (CH, Sep'87). In this new volume he applies it to routine clinical encounters. Cogent arguments are presented to show the inappropriateness of traditional authoritarian interactions for modern clinical encounters. Chapters examine patients' values, the concept of medical indications (which Veatch argues contains embedded values and biases), and application of the proposed model to malpractice, generic prescribing, use of investigational drugs, drug use for nonapproved purposes, placebos, access to medical records, and notions of confidentiality and duty. Part 3 of the book includes four chapters dealing with the principle of justice, too often neglected in American writings about medical ethics. The work concludes with chapters dealing with special problems: transplantation, guardianship, do--not--resuscitate orders, and ethics committees. The final chapter summarizes and discusses these concepts in the context of medicine's changing technology and culture. This outstanding discussion of important current medical issues is a valuable addition to academic and professional libraries.L. A./P>--L. A. Crandall, University of Florida Choice (01/01/1991) <p>Veatch, an eminent medical ethicist, addressed the concept of acontractual physician -- patient relationship applied to research settings in ThePatient as Partner: A Theory of Human -- Experimentation Ethics (CH, Sep'87). Inthis new volume he applies it to routine clinical encounters. Cogent arguments arepresented to show the inappropriateness of traditional authoritarian interactionsfor modern clinical encounters. Chapters examine patients' values, the concept ofmedical indications (which Veatch argues contains embedded values and biases), andapplication of the proposed model to malpractice, generic prescribing, use ofinvestigational drugs, drug use for nonapproved purposes, placebos, access tomedical records, and notions of confidentiality and duty. Part 3 of the bookincludes four chapters dealing with the principle of justice, too often neglected inAmerican writings about medical ethics. The work concludes with chapters dealingwith special problems: transplantation, guardianship, Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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