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Tables of Contents for Death Foretold
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Prognosis In Medicine
1
29
Making Use Of Prognosis
30
34
Error and Accountability in Prognostication
64
20
Professional Norms Regarding Prognostication
84
23
Telling Patients Their Prognosis
107
28
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
135
28
The Ritualization of Optimism and Pessimism
163
16
A Duty To Prognosticate
179
22
Appendix 1 Original Sources Of Data
201
8
Appendix 2 Detailed Survey Experiment Results
209
20
Acknowledgments
229
4
Notes
233
50
Bibliography
283
26
Index
309