"Catalog no. 025100"--Title page verso.

Part 1. The hospital within society : Theory --Protecting the medical commons : who is responsible? / Howard H. Hiatt -- Introduction to securing access to health care : A report on the ethical implications of differences in the availability of health services -- Health care decisions : a summary of the conclusions of the President's Commission / Alexander M. Capron -- Health care technology and the inevitability of resource allocation and rationing decisions / Roger W. Evans -- Rationing health care / Rudolf Klein -- Shattuck lecture -- Allocating scarce medical resources and the availability of organ transplantation : some moral presuppositions / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Two tiers of care : the unthinkable meets the inevitable? / Emily Friedman -- Part 2. The hospital within society : Practice -- Because someone has to be responsible : duty and dilemma for the American hospital / Emily Friedman -- Social and ethical problems in the treatment of end-stage renal disease patients / Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey, Elizabeth M. Cameron -- Rationing intensive care--physician responses to a resource shortage / Daniel E. Singer [and others] -- Who shall live when not all can live? / James F. Childress -- Rx for reason -- Ethical and policy issues in the procurement of cadaver organs for transplantation / Arthur L. Caplan -- Heart transplant / Lois K. Christopherson -- Part 3. The patient within the hospital : Theory -- Ethical dilemmas in the care of the ill / Leon R. Kass -- Arrogance / Franz J. Ingelfinger -- The physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients / Sidney H. Wanzer [and others] -- Competence to refuse medical treatment : autonomy vs paternalism / George J. Annas and Jean E. Densberger -- A summery of values in conflict : resolving ethical issues in hospital care / Paul B. Hofmann -- Legal perspectives on institutional ethics committees / Alexander M. Capron -- Ethics committees : promise or peril? / Richard A. McCormick -- Ethics committees : what we have learned / Corrine Bayley and Ronald E. Cranford -- Part 4. The patient within the hospital : Practice -- Prisoner in the ICU : the tragedy of William Bartling / George J. Annas -- Autonomy for burned patients when survival is unprecedented / Sharon H. Imbus and Bruce E. Zawacki -- Orders not to resuscitate / Mitchell T. Rabkin, Gerald Gillerman, Nancy R. Rice -- Must patients always be given food and water? / Joanne Lynn and James F. Childress -- Dementia in the elderly : an analysis of medical responsibility / Christine K. Cassel and Andrew L. Jameton.