Choices and Conflict: Explorations in Health CareEthics (AHA Press)
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EMILY FRIEDMAN, is a health policy analyst, writer, and lecturer with a longstanding interest in bioethics and the social ethics of health care. She is contributing editor of Hospitals and Healthcare Forum Journal (for which she writes a bimonthly ethics column), and she is a contributing writer to the Journal of the American Medical Association, health Business, Health Management Quarterly, and Health Progress, among other periodicals. She is a member of the editorial boards of Health Management Quarterly and the Journal of Rural Health. Ms. Friedman was Rockefeller Fellow in Ethics at Dartmouth College in 1987-1988 and currently is an adjunct assistant professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, where she teaches a course in health care rationing. Ms. Friedman was the editor of the previous volume in this series, Making Choices: Ethics Issues for Health Care professionals (American Hospital Publishing, 1986). She is based in Chicago.

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About the Editor.

Foreword.

Preface.

RATIONING: ISSUES AND REASONS.

Scarce Resources and Medical Advancement (H. Beecher).

Terminating Treatment: Age as a Standard (D. Callahan).

Who Shall Be Saved? An African Answer (John F. Kilner).

Bentham in a Box: Technology Assessment and Health Care Allocation (A. Jonsen).

RATIONING: THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL'S ROLE.

Must We Always Use CPR? (L. Blackhall).

Fetal Surgery-What Price (W. Kirkley).

Medical Futility: Its Meaning and Ethical Implications (L. Schneiderman, et al.).

Cost Containment and the Physician (M. Angell).

Outcomes Research, Cost Containment, and the Fear of Health Care Rationing (J. Wennberg).

Why Saying No to Patients in the United States Is So Hard (N. Daniels).

DILEMMAS IN THE PATIENT-PROVIDER RALATIONSHIP.

High-Tech Death: Using Law and Ethics to Humanize Dying in American Hospitals (G. Annas).

Patient Autonomy and "Death with Dignity": Some Clinical Caveats (D. Jackson & S. Youngner).

AIDS and the Gay Community: Between the Specter and the Promise of Medicine (R. Bayer).

Death and Access: Ethics in Cross-Cultural Health Care (K. Brown).

ETHICS AND THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL.

Moral Distress in Nursing (D. Phillips).

Nursing Ethics and the Moral Situation of the Nurse (A. Jameton).

Ethics and Corporate Culture: Finding a Fit (E. Friedman).

Marginal Missions and Missionary Margins (E. Friedman).

Leprosy: A Disease of the Heart (R. Crawshaw).

THE PRACTICE OF BIOETHICS.

Medical Morality Is Not Bioethics: Medical Ethics in China and the United States (R. Fox & J. Swazey).

She's Going to Die: The Case of Angela C (G. Annas).

Ethics Issues in Rural Health and Hospitals (W. Nelson & A. Pomerantz).

Community Health Decisions Programs: The Corporatization of a Grassroots Political Movement (D. Phillips).

THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY: SEEKING FAIRNESS.

Modernizing Mortality: Medical Progress and the Good Society (D. Callahan).

We Shall Overcome, Somehow: Organ Replacement and the Meanings of Medical Progress (J. Swazey & R. Fox).

A Communitarian Ethical Model for Public Health Interventions: An Alternative to Individual Behavior Change Strategies (J. Forster).

Courts, GAnder, and "The Right to Die" (S. Miles & A. August).

The Torturer's Horse (E. Friedman).

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