Physician-Patient Decision-Making - A Study in Medical Ethics (Hardcover)

Walton offers a comprehensive, flexible model for physician-patient decision making, the first such tool designed to be applied at the level of each particular case. Based on Aristotelian practical reasoning, it develops a method of reasonable dialogue, a question- and-answer process of interaction leading to informed consent on the part of the patient, and to a decision--mutually arrived at--reflecting both high medical standards and the patient's felt needs. After setting forth his model, he applies it to three vital ethical issues: acts of omission, the cessation of treatment, and possible side effects of treatments. In the final chapter, Walton shows how his method functions in light of the real-life complexities of the clinical encounter and how it bears on ethical questions concerning health-care policy, attitudes toward treatment and toward the medical profession, reasonableness of expectations, and the setting of realistic goals of treatment.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1985
First published:	October 1985
Authors:	Douglas N. Walton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	265
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-24888-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
LSN:	0-313-24888-5
Barcode:	9780313248887

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