Physician-Patient Decision-Making: A Study in Medical Ethics

by Douglas N. Walton

Walton offers a comprehensive, flexible model for physician-patient decision making, the first such tool designed to be applied at the level of each particular case. Based on Aristotelian practical reasoning, it develops a method of reasonable dialogue, a question- and-answer process of interaction leading to informed consent on the part of the patient, and to a decision--mutually arrived at--reflecting both high medical standards and the patient's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313248885
• ISBN13: 9780313248887
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"