TY - BOOK AU - Devettere,Raymond J. TI - Practical decision making in health care ethics: cases and concepts SN - 9781589012516 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - R724 .D48 2009 U1 - 174.2 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Georgetown University Press KW - Medical ethics KW - Case studies KW - Decision making N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; What is ethics? -- Prudence and living a good life -- The language of health care ethics -- Making health care decisions -- Deciding for others -- Determining life and death -- Life-sustaining treatments -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Medical nutrition and hydration -- Reproductive issues -- Prenatal life -- Neonatal life -- Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Medical research -- Transplantation -- Medical genetics -- Social and political issues ER -