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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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Major Problems in Neurology,
Description
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
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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
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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
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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 When-- if ever-- should treatment be withdrawn?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
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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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Last update: 3 Oct 2009
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