Complex ethics consultations : cases that haunt us / edited by Paul J. Ford and Denise M. Dudzinski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Quality of life--and of ethics consultation--in the NICU / Robert Macauley and Robert Orr -- When a baby dies in pain / David Woodrum and Thomas R. McCormick -- But how can we choose? / Richard M. Zaner -- Maternal-fetal surgery and the "profoundest question in ethics" / Mark J. Bliton -- She was the life of the party / Douglas S. Diekema -- Bound by chains : a tragedy / Jeffrey Spike -- Susie's voice / Rosa Lynn Pinkus, Stella L. Smetanka and Nathan A. Kottkamp -- Access to an infant's family : lingering effects of not talking with parents / D. Micah Hester -- Helping staff help a "hateful" patient : the case of TJ / Joy Skeel and Kristi S. Williams -- Ulysses contract / Barbara Daly and Cynthia Griggins -- Misjudging needs : a messy spiral of complexity / Paul J. Ford -- When the patient refuses to eat / Debra Craig and Gerald R. Winslow -- Listening to the husband / Ellen W. Bernal -- You're the ethicist, I'm just the surgeon, or, Only three days / Joseph DeMarco and Paul J. Ford -- Haunted by a good outcome : the case of Sister Jane / George J. Agich -- Is a broken jaw a terminal condition? / Stuart G. Finder -- Adolescent pregnancy, confidentiality and culture / Donald Brunnquell -- Tanya, the one with Jonathan's kidney : a living unrelated donor case of church associates / Tarris Rosell -- Futility, Islam and death / Kathryn Weise -- Suffering as God's will / Kathrin Ohnsorge and Paul J. Ford -- Amputate my arm please, I don't want it anymore / Denise M. Dudzinski -- Feuding surrogates, herbal therapies, and a dying patient / Alissa Hurwitz Swota -- One way out : destination therapy by default / Alice Chang and Denise M. Dudzinski -- Altruistic organ donation : credible?, acceptable? / Ronald B. Miller -- It's not my responsibility / Mary Beth Foglia and Robert Pearlman -- Intra-operative exposure to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease : to disclose or not to disclose / Joel Potash -- Why do we have to discharge this patient? / Sarah E. Shannon -- Who's that sleeping in my bed? : an institutional response to an organizational ethics problem / Daryl Pullman, Rick Singleton and Janet Templeton.

"Clinical ethicists encounter the most emotionally eviscerating medical cases possible. They struggle to facilitate resolutions founded on good reasoning embedded in compassionate care. This book fills the considerable gap between current texts and the continuing educational needs of those actually facing complex ethics consultations in hospital settings. 28 richly detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of these impossibly difficult consultations. The cases are grouped together by theme to aid teaching, discussion and professional growth. The cases inform any reader who has a keen interest in the choices made in real-life medical dilemmas as well as the emotional cost to those who work to improve the situations. On a more advanced level, this book should be read by ethics committee members who participate in ethics consultations, individual ethics consultants, clinicians who seek education about complex clinical ethics cases, and bioethics students."--Publisher description.

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