The Patient-Physician Relation The Patient as Partner, Part 2 [Hardcover]

Throughout the past two decades, when medical ethics has had a renaissance, Robert Veatch has been a leading contributor to its dialogue and advance. This collection of his work shows the breadth and the cogency of his thinking.... it is a book worth having. Journal of the American Medical Association

... a fascinating dissection of almost every aspect of the doctor-patient relationship.... strongly recommended reading for all health care workers interested in this rapidly evolving field. Queens Quarterly

This outstanding discussion of important current medical issues is a valuable addition to academic and professional libraries. Choice

... an important contribution to bioethics... certain to provoke controversy in the field. Medical Humanities Review

Lucid and well-argued... Religious Studies Review

This book heralds the imminent demise of doctor knows best. In it, Robert M. Veatch proposes a postmodern medicine in which decisions about patient care will routinely involve both doctor and patientnot only in ethically complex cases such as the termination of life-sustaining treatment, but in everyday care as well.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. The Foundations of the Patient-Physician Relation
1. Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age
2. Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal?
3. The Physician as Stranger: The Ethics of the Anonymous Patient-Physician Relationship
4. Values in Routine Medical Decisions
5. The Concept of Medical Indications
6. The Principles for Medical Ethics

Part II. The Individual Professional-Patient Relation
7. Informed Consent: The Emergeing Norms
8. Malpractice in the Contract Mode
9. The Ethics of Generic Drug Use
10. Treatment INDs: The Right of Access to Experimental Drugs
11. Ethics of Drugs for Nonapproved Uses
12. When Should the Patient Know? The Death of the Therapeutic Privilege
13. An Unexpected Chlc+