Describes the legal, ethical, financial, medical, and emotional aspects of decisions involving the critically ill, and discusses living wills, kidney dialysis, handicapped newborns, organ transplants, and genetic screening

Choosing Life or Death: A Guide for Patients, Families, and Professionals

Politics & Social Sciences

Winslade, William J.

Ross, Judith Wilson

Philosophy

Free Pr

Shows health care professionals how to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine, using the Four-Box Method ( medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). The Fifth Edition emphasizes evidence-based medicine, and explores new issues in treatment and research.

CLINICAL ETHICS: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine

Medical Books

Jonsen, Albert R.

Siegler,Mark

Allied Health Professions

McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange

Traumatic brain injury is the fourth most common cause of death in the developed world: in the United States alone, 75,000 to 100,000 people die of brain trauma each year, and another 70,000 to 90,000 are left permanently impaired. This book―the first comprehensive, accessible book on traumatic brain injury―explains what it is, how it is caused, and what can be done to treat, cope with, and prevent it. William Winslade presents facts about traumatic brain injury; information about its financial and emotional costs to individuals, families, and society; and key ethical and policy issues. He illustrates each aspect with dramatic case studies, including his own childhood brain injury. He explains how the brain works and how severe injuries affect it, both immediately and over the long term, pointing out how resources are often squandered on patients with poor prognoses and adequate insurance, while underinsured patients with better prognoses do not receive appropriate care. He tells about the lack of regulation in the rehabilitation industry and what federal and state legislatures are doing to correct the situation. And he offers recommendations for policy changes to lower the instances of traumatic brain injury (such as raising the minimum driving age) as well as practical steps that individuals can take to protect themselves from brain trauma.

Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury : Devastation, Hope, and Healing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Yale University Press

The go-to textbook on the increasingly important and rapidly evolving topic of medical ethics Ethical issues are embedded in every clinical encounter between patients and clinicians. In order to practice excellent clinical care, clinicians must understand ethical issues such as informed consent, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, truth telling, confidentiality, privacy, the distinction between research and clinical care, and end-of-life care. This popular, clinically-oriented guide provides crystal-clear case-based coverage of the ethical situations encountered in everyday medical practice. Clinical Ethics introduces the proven Four Box Method--a much-needed pattern for collecting, sorting, and ordering the facts of a clinical ethical problem. This easy-to-apply system is based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that explain clinical ethics and help clinicians formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy. In each chapter, the authors discuss case examples and provide analysis, comments, and specific recommendations. The book is divided into the four topics that constitute the essential ethical structure of every clinical encounter: <ul> <li>Medical Indications,</li> <li>Preferences of Patients</li> <li>Quality of Life</li> <li>Contextual Features</li> </ul>

Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Ninth Edition

Self-Help

Death & Grief

McGraw-Hill Medical

How to Make the Most of Your Mind: Using Your Brain, Body and Environment to Improve the Quality of Your Life

Science & Math

Taylor, Heber

Behavioral Sciences

Thompson and Treanor Publishers

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