The Right Thing
Ten Years of Ethics Columns from the "Healthcare Forum Journal"
Published on 3. May 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-0-7879-0225-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book, in collaboration with the celebration of the 10 year anniversary of "The Healthcare Forum Journal", features the classic and always provocative columns of healthcare writer Emily Friedman, also featuring new material. This work brings together key writings from one of the USA's foremost commentators on ethics in health care. It is a pragmatic, socially-responsible, and down-to-earth analysis of trends and issues facing professionals and consumers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 161 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-0225-4 (9780787902254)
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Content
Organ Transplants: A Lesson from Canada; Whose responsibility is it, anyway?; Decisions and default; Blaming the victim: the caregiver's conflict; Buying into the doctor's decision: more than we bargained for?; The essential element; Marketing and fear; Copycats, copycats; This thing about machines; Marginal missions and missionary margins; Out of the frying pan; Doing it yourself; What happens because of how we choose: the case of children; Rationing and health care: crisis and courage; Paradise Lost: a 21st Century fable; As long as it comes out all right; The littlest victims; Concepts of community; Managed care and managing ethics; The toad at the edge of the world; An ounce of compassion; Freedom of choice; How we keep score; Losers; I've got a secret; Just another day at the office.