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Practical decision making in health care ethics — cases and concepts
Author(s)	Raymond J Devettere
Publisher	Georgetown UP, Washington, DC, 2000
Pages	639 pp
Keywords	Health services ; Social ethics ; Terminal care ; Euthanasia ; United States of America.
Annotation	The ethics proposed concern personal well-being and fulfilment, rather than obligation and duty. Specific US cases and legislation (e.g. the Patient Self-Determination Act) are referred to throughout on issues including: making health care decisions; determining life and death; life-sustaining treatments; cardiopulmonary resuscitation and "do not resuscitate" (DNR) policies; medical nutrition and hydration; euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; and managed care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001219224 B
Classmark	L: TQ: LV: CY: 7T
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