The patient-physician relation: the patient as partner, part 2

Abstract

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Foundations of the Patient-Physician Relation 1. Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age 2. Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal? 3. The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship 4. Values in Routine Medical Decisions 5. The Concept of OMedical IndicationsO 6. The Principles for Medical Ethics Part II. The Individual Professional-Patient Relation 7. Informed Consent: The Emergeing Norms 8. Malpractice in the Contract Mode 9. The Ethics of Generic Drug Use 10. Treatment INDs: The Right of Access to Experimental Drugs 11. Ethics of Drugs for Nonapproved Uses 12. When Should the Patient Know? The Death of the Therapeutic Privilege 13. An Unexpected Chronosome: Disclosure of Genetic Information 14. The Ethics of Dispensing Placebos 15. The PatientOs Right of Access to Medical Records 16. The Limits of Confidentiality: The Case of the Homosexual Husband 17. PatientsO Duties and PhysiciansO Rights Part III. The Social Professional-Patient Relation 18. AutonomyOs Temporary Triumph: On the Alleged Conflict between Autonomy and Justice 19. DRGs and the Ethics of Cost Containment 20. Justice and Economics: Care of the Terminally Ill, Persistently Vegetative, and Elderly 21. Voluntary Risks to Health: The Ethical Issues Part IV. Special Problem Areas 22. The Ethics of Organ Transplantation 23. The Technical Criteria Fallacy: The Case of Spina Bifida 24. Limits of Guardian Treament Refusal: A Reasonableness Standard 25. ODo Not ResuscitateO Orders: An Ethical Analysis 26. The Ethics of Institutional Ethics Committees Part V. The Future of the Partnership 27. Contemporary Bioethics and the Demise of Modern Medicine Notes Index