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McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide Introduction The Four Topics Ethical Reasoning in Clinical Ethics Resources in Clinical Ethics Acknowledgements Bibliography The Four Topics Chart TOPIC ONE Medical Indications 1.1 Indicated and Nonindicated Interventions 1.2 Clinical Judgment and Clinical Uncertainty 1.3 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Orders not to Resuscitate 1.4 Medical Error 1.5 Determination of Death 1.6 Summary TOPIC TWO Preferences of Patients 2.1 Informed Consent 2.2 Decisional Capacity 2.3 Decision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient 2.4 Surrogate Decision Makers 2.5 Failure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic Relationship TOPIC THREE Quality of Life 3.1 Divergent Evaluations of Quality of Life 3.2 Enhancement Medicine 3.3 Compromised Quality of Life and Life-Sustaining Interventions 3.4 Pain Relief for Terminally Ill Patients 3.5 Medically Assisted Dying 3.6 Suicide TOPIC FOUR Contextual Features 4.1 Health Professions 4.2 Other Interested Parties 4.3 Confidentiality of Medical Information 4.4 Economics of Clinical Care 4.5 Allocation of Scarce Health Resources 4.6 Influence of Religion on Clinical Decisions 4.7 Role of Law in Clinical Ethics 4.8 Clinical Research and Education 4.9 Public Health 4.10 Organizational Ethics
