28 detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of difficult consultations.

In the clinical setting, questions of medical ethics raise a host of perplexing problems, often complicated by conflicting perspectives and the need to make imm

Clinical ethicists encounter the most emotionally eviscerating medical cases possible. They struggle to facilitate resolutions founded on good reasoning embedde

This is a book about clinical ethics consultation by two practitioners who together have done more than 700 consultations. There is not another authoritative bo

The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center's Bioethics Consultation Service draws on a decade of experience to share a collection of their most interesti