Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Controversy and the Clinical Mentality: Some Methodological Problems and Their Effects on the Research Design; Part I: Criteria for Decision-Making; 3. Decisions to Treat Critically Ill Patients: Social Versus Medical Considerations; 4. The Terminal Patient: Treatment of the Dying and the Dead; 5. Decision-Making Viewed Through Hospital Records; Part II: Sources of Variation Among Physicians: Some Organizational, Social, and Cultural Variables; 6. Context for Decision-Making: The Hospital Setting
  • 7. The Active Physician: Cultural Influences Upon Medical Decisions8. Departmental Dynamics and the Development of New Medical Technology; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Charts; Appendix 2: Questionnaires; Glossary of Medical Terms; Bibliography; Index