Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine / Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade.

1.1 Inappropriate interventions -- 1.2 Orders not to attempt resuscitation -- 1.3 Care of the dying patient -- 1.4 Legal implications of forgoing treatment -- 1.5 Determination of death -- 2.1 Informed consent -- 2.2 Decisional capacity -- 2.3 Beliefs due to religious and cultural diversity -- 2.4 Truthful communication -- 2.5 Competent refusal of treatment -- 2.6 Advance planning -- 2.7 Decision-making for the mentally incapacitated patient -- 2.8 The limits of patient preferences -- 2.9 Failure to cooperate with medical recommendations -- 2.10 Alternative medicine -- 3.1 Enhancing quality of life -- 3.2 Objective criteria for quality of life -- 3.3 Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- 3.4 Suicide -- 4.1 Role of interested parties -- 4.2 Physician confidentiality -- 4.3 The economics of health care -- 4.4 Allocation of scarce health resources -- 4.5 Religion -- 4.6 The role of the law in clinical ethics -- 4.7 Clinical research -- 4.8 Clinical teaching -- 4.9 Occupational medicine -- 4.10 Public health -- 4.11 Ethics committees -- 4.12 Ethics consultation.