TY  - BOOK
AU  - Danbury,Christopher
AU  - Newdick,Christopher
AU  - Keene,Alex Ruck
AU  - Waldmann,Carl
TI  - Law and ethics in intensive care
SN  - 9780198817161
AV  - RC86.95 .L39 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Critical care medicine
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Critical Care
KW  - Ethics, Medical
KW  - Soins intensifs
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Éthique médicale
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Thirty years ago, when medical law as we now understand it was in its infancy in this country, reported cases were few and textbooks and monographs even fewer. Today, our shelves groan under the weight of a seemingly ceaseless flow of new cases and new books. Why is this book, whose second edition is very welcome, so important and so valuable? First, it deals with a centrally important topic- intensive care- which, as the editors remark, presents in one medical discipline many of the most intractable problems in health law. More than many medical matters, and as this book so pervasively brings out, intensive care engages, most acutely, ethics as much as medicine and the law. And, as the editors justly observe, it is an area of medical practice where the law has not always played as helpful a part as one would hope. As they comment, at times the courts appear to place impossible demands upon clinicians in the intensive care unit"--
ER  -