Intensive care : medical ethics and the medical profession / Robert Zussman.
1992
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Author
Title
Intensive care : medical ethics and the medical profession / Robert Zussman.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
RC86.95 .Z87 1992
ISBN
0226996344 (cloth : alk. paper) :
0226996352 (paper : alk. paper) :
0226996352 (paper : alk. paper) :
Description
viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25009361
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession
1
2Intensive Care
13
Pt. 1
The Moral Order of Intensive Care
29
3The Patient
31
4Doctors: The Banality of Heroism
44
5The Nurse's Dilemma
62
6Patienthood and the Culture of Rights
81
7Patients and Families
91
Pt. 2
Medical Ethics: Triage and the Limitation of Treatment
99
8"Penguins in the Basement"
104
9Uncertainty, the Social Organization of Medicine, and Limitation of Treatment
116
10Withholding, Withdrawing, and the "Terminal" Patient
123
11Ethics, Families, and Technical Reason
139
12The "Do Not Resuscitate" Order as Ritual
161
13"A Legal Thing"
172
14The Last Bed
186
15Medicine's Two Cultures
219
Appendix: On Method
231
General Index
247
Index of Doctors, Nurses, Patients, and Families of Patients
251