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Pavadinimas: WHO LIVES? WHO DIES? ETHICAL CRITERIA IN PATIENT SELECTION
Autoriai: JOHHN F. KILNER
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ISBN: 0-300-04680-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202168
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"Kilner addresses an ethical issue that is becoming increasingly important: haw shall decisions about selecting recipients for scarce life-sustaining medical resources be made? The book contains an extensive discussion of fifteen criteria for patient selection, with the criteria grouped in four categories: social, sociomedical, medical, and personal�An important contribution to the literature in biomedical ethics [that] should be widely read."

Robert Weir, Ethics

Introduction ix
PART ONE: THE PREDICAMENT
1. Limited resources 3
2. Plentiful approaches 13
PART TWO: SOCIAL CRITERIA
3. Social value 27
4. Favored group 42
5. Resources required 56
6. Special responsibilities 64
PART THREE: SOCIOMEDICAL CRITERIA
7. Age 77
8. Psychological ability 95
9. Supportive environment 105
PART FOUR: MEDICAL CRITERIA
10. Medical benefit 115
11. Imminent death 124
12. Likelihood of benefit 135
13. Length of benefit 144
14. Quality of benefit 152
PART FIVE: PERSONAL CRITERIA
15. Willingness 163
16. Ability to pay 175
17. Random selection 192
18. When resources are experimental 211
19. A proposal 221
Notes 239
References cited 297
Index 355