Product Description: Patients increasingly demand a voice in making their wishes known at critical points in their medical treatment, and today these wishes are often spelled out in great detail. Do not resuscitate orders, advance medical directives, pain management options are some of the medical choices patients can express through legal instruments such as a living will, or by designating a health care proxy, so that these choices are clear in the event that the patient cannot express them himself...read more

Product Description: A study of ethics and medical decision-making. It sets out a framework for ethical thinking in medicine, featuring articles from journals and essay collections. The impact of religion on ethical thinking about medicine remains an important undercurrent, and this is examined in the first section of this book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book that explores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-making through hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of this volume is that each chapter sets forth a hypothetical fact pattern which includes role assignments to encourage participants to actively take part in group discussions and debate the controversial and cutting-edge topics that are presented...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Integrating theory with realistic case studies, this book examines the practical application of moral theory in clinical decision-making. With forty composite cases based on actual clinical experiences, the author describes key moral problems raised by modern medicine...read more