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A monograph that provides neurologists, neurosurgeons, and other physicians who treat neurological patients with a comprehensive, current account of some of the important ethical problems they face in their daily practices. The volume is divided into four sections: the theory and practice of clinical ethics; termination of medical treatment for incompetent patients; ethical issues in neurological syndromes; and other clinical ethical issues (physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and medical futility). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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This important textbook on ethics in clinical neurology covers the ethical dilemmas that are becoming more and more prevalent in the neurologist's everyday practice. Among the patients a neurologist sees are those with incurable diseases, debilitatingdisorders, and diseases with concomitant psychiatric problems. This book reviews the important works on the subject, identifies the areas of controversy and consensus, provides a balanced account of those areas that remain unresolved, and offersobjective approaches for the clinician. Medicolegal cases are integrated where high court judicial decisions were rendered using ethical analyses in their judgments. Those areas of law that parallel clinical ethics will be integrated at appropriatestages.
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