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ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN NEUROLOGY, 36
Ethical Dilemmas in Neurology, 36
Major Problems in Neurology Series
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By
Adam Zeman, Consultant Neurologist, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospitals, Edinburgh, UK
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, Buehler Professor of Medicine and Director, Buehler Center on Aging, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Professor of Health Industry Management and Director, Ford Center on Global Citizenship's Health Section, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

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An international team of recognized authorities offer a collection of thought provoking essays on ethical questions often faced by neurologists in clinical practice.

Contents
Preface
Foreword by Ian McDonald



Introduction
by Adam Zeman and Linda Emanuel

1. What are ethics? By Anthony Grayling



Diagnosis and communication


2. To tell or not to tell?: the problem of medically unexplained symptoms by Simon Wessely

3. Should the diagnosis of Alzheimers disease always be disclosed? by Robert Howard

4. When, if ever, should confidentiality be set aside? By Jessica Wilen Berg

5. Should consent be required for an HIV test? By Rebecca Dresser

6. Should we offer predictive tests for fatal inherited diseases and, if so, how?     
by Susan M Wolf and Thomas C Horejsi



Therapy


7. Why, and how should trials be conducted? By Richard I Lindley and Charles P Warlow

8. How should we test and improve neurosurgical care? By Grant Gillett

9. Embryos and animals: can we justify their use in research and treatment? By Peter Singer

10. Who should receive and who dispense expensive treatments? By David Bates

11. Why and when may treatment be enforced? By Anthony Hope

Funding and conflicts of interest

12. Does private practice threaten public service or enhance it? By Ian R Williams

13. The Gulf War Syndrome and the military medic: whose agent is the physician?       
By Edmund G Howe

Last things

14. Is the concept of brain stem death secure? By Calixto Machado

15. When-- if ever-- should treatment be withdrawn? By Christopher D Ward

16. Must we always use advance directives? By Linda Emanuel

17. When-if ever-should we expedite death? By Diane E Meier, Hattie Myers and
Philip R Muskin


Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 224 pages, publication date: OCT-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2227-2
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2227-6
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL


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