Dax's Case: Essays in Medical Ethics and Human MeaningLonnie D. Kliever |
Contents
Daxs Case Twelve Years Later | 13 |
Failed or Ongoing Dialogues? Daxs Case | 43 |
Management Issues in Medicine | 63 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept accident actions Ada Cowart allowed assisted suicide attorney authority autono autonomy believe benefit Book of Job burned patient Charles Baxter choices choose client concern conflict continue Cowart story Dax Cowart Dax's body Dax's mother death decision demand disfigured doctors Don Cowart Duane Larson dying euthanasia experience fame feel film Dax's force freedom friends future Galveston hand honor hospital human Ibid incompetent inflicted informed consent injury issues Job's justify Larson lawyer limits live Lonnie D means medical ethics medicine ment nonacquiescence one's outcome pain Parkland Hospital paternalism paternalistic physi physical physicians possible principle of respect problem professionals protect questions reason redemptive suffering refuse treatment rehabilitation relationship respect for persons response Rex Houston right to die Robert Nozick role sense severely burned situation social society sure Texas therapists tion torture traditional treated understanding values videotape wishes