This book is designed to be a desk reference in medical ethics for practicing physicians. It is
ordered to the practical resolution of concrete cases that clinicians frequently face, and it
explicitly avoids becoming involved in abstruse theoretical arguments, ethical theories and
speculation. A very well organized book, it enables physicians to come to ethical judgments
in the same manner that they formulate clinical judgments, for the text employs the
contemporary medical clinical diag· nostic model used in medical practice. There are many …