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Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine

by Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade · 1982

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Clinical Ethics introduces the 'four-topic' method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). Each of the four chapters represents one of the topics. In each chapter, the authors discuss cases and provide comments and recommendations.

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medium · 227 pages

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