Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals (Critical Issues in Bioethics)
By Robert D. Orr.
Description
Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the “Can we . . . ?” questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do with “Should we . . . ?” questions: Should we use a feeding tube for Mom? How should we deal with our baby about to be born with life-threatening anomalies? Should our son be taken off dialysis, even though he’ll die without it? What should we do with our mentally ill sister, who has p...
ISBN(s)
080286404X, 9780802864048
