Title: Medical choices, medical chances : how patients, families, and physicians can cope with uncertainty /
Authors: Bursztajn, Harold.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Medicine Philosophy; Medical logic.; Medicine Decision making; Probabilities.; Uncertainty.; Physician and patient.; Decision Making; Philosophy, Medical; Physician-Patient Relations; Probability
Contents: A case of uncertainty -- Uncertainty in science -- Uncertainty in medicine -- Uncertainty in everyday life -- Decision making in medicine -- Decision analysis : use with caution -- Unconscious and conscious gambling -- Gambling skills for medicine -- A family -- Trust -- Compliance versus caring -- Death in the home -- Birth in the home -- Medical milieux -- Can it work?