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Ethics and Critical Care Medicine

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. John C. Moskop

    1. East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, USA

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  2. Loretta Kopelman

    1. East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 19)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. A Movable Medical Crisis

    • Warren Thomas Reich
    Pages 1-10

  3. Moral Absurdities in Critical Care Medicine: Commentary on a Parable

    • Warren Thomas Reich
    Pages 11-21

  4. Moral Tensions in Critical Care Medicine: “Absurdities” as Indications of Finitude

    • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
    Pages 23-33

  5. “Conceptual Construals” vs. Moral Experience: A Rejoinder

    • Warren Thomas Reich
    Pages 35-40

  6. Can Principles Survive in Situations of Critical Care?

    • Jay Katz
    Pages 41-67

  7. Coercion, Conversation, and the Casuist: A Reply to Jay Katz

    • Stuart F. Spicker
    Pages 69-77

  8. Justice and the Hippocratic Tradition of Acting for the Good of the Sick

    • Loretta Kopelman
    Pages 79-103

  9. Clinical Ethics and Resource Allocation: The Problem of Chronic Illness in Childhood

    • James M. Perrin
    Pages 105-116

  10. Moral Choice, the Good of the Patient, and the Patient’s Good

    • Edmund D. Pellegrino
    Pages 117-138

  11. What Good is Another Paper on the Good? No Codes and Dr. Pellegrino

    • Sally A. Gadow
    Pages 139-145

  12. Allocating Resources within Health Care: Critical Care vs. Prevention

    • John C. Moskop
    Pages 147-161

  13. Report of the President’s 2003 Commission on the Fall of Medicine

    • Gregory E. Pence
    Pages 163-170

  14. Triage and Critical Care

    • Joseph Margolis
    Pages 171-189

  15. The Ethics of Critical Care in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    • Robert M. Veatch
    Pages 191-206

  16. Triage: Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    • Ross Kessel
    Pages 207-214

  17. Critical Care in an Historical Context

    • Stanley J. Reiser
    Pages 215-224

  18. Commentary on Stanley J. Reiser’s ‘Critical Care in an Historical Context’

    • Peter C. English
    Pages 225-230

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 231-236
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About this book

The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems. How should we spend our tax d'ollars, and who should get help? The purpose of this volume is to reflect upon our choices. The authors whose papers appear herein identify major difficulties and offer various solutions to them. Four topics are discussed throughout the volume: First, encounters between patients and health professionals in critical situations in general, and where scarcity makes rationing necessary; second, allocation and social policy, including how much to spend on preventive, chronic or critical care medicine, or for medicine in general compared to other important social projects; third, conflicts between or ranking of important goals and values; and fourth, conceptual issues affecting the choices we make. Since these topics are raised by the authors in almost every essay, we did not divide the papers into separate sections within the volume. Warren Reich begins the volume with a parable illustrating a key problem for contemporary medicine and two very different approaches to its solution. His story begins with the "delivery" of three indigent, critically ill, foreign patients to the emergency room of a large American private hospital. Although the hospital is legally bound to care for these patients, providing long term, high cost care for them and others soon becomes a major financial strain.

Editors and Affiliations

  • East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, USA

    John C. Moskop, Loretta Kopelman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethics and Critical Care Medicine

  • Editors: John C. Moskop, Loretta Kopelman

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5233-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1820-4Published: 30 September 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8814-5Published: 22 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5233-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 236

  • Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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