Medical care in the United States has rapidly moved away from a paternalistic approach to
patients and toward an emphasis on patient autonomy.At one extreme end of this spectrum is …

PERSPECTIVE n engl j med 366; 21 nejm. org may 24, 2012 1950 fer perhaps a 10% chance
of a significant extension of life for patients who would otherwise be fated to die very soon. …

From Laszlo's analysis of living things as natural systems one may develop a view of man,
in both the individual and social dimensions, as a hierarchy of such natural systems …

Are there morally compelling differences among allowing a patient to die by forgoing treatment,
physician-assisted suicide, and active euthanasia? And what follows for medical ethics …

Although the physician's use and misuse of power have been discussed in the social sciences
and in literature, they have never been explored in medical ethics until now. In this book, …

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to
organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we …

A predominant ethical view holds that physician‐investigators should conduct their research
with therapeutic intent. And since a physician offering a therapy wouldn't prescribe second‐…

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The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations
of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public …

The placebo response is commonly invoked as a factor in the therapeutic relationship
between the family physician and the patient, but important recent literature can be difficult for …