Margin of error
Subtitle: the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine
By: edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.
Contributors: Rubin, Susan B., 1962-; Zoloth, Laurie.
Series: Ethics in clinical medicine series
Publisher: University Pub. Group
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Hagerstown, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Medical errors -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Diagnostic errors -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Diagnosis.; Medical Errors.; Patient Care.; Ethics, Medical.; Professional-Patient Relations.; Medical ethics.; Medical errors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Framing our mistakes; title: Ch. 2. To err is human: american culture, history, and medical error; title: Ch. 3. The life-long-error, or John Marcher the Proleptic; title: Ch. 4. Humility reconsidered; title: Ch. 5. Mistakes in context; title: Ch. 6. Facing our mistakes; title: Ch. 7. Error in medicine; title: Ch. 8. Mistakes in medicine: personal and moral responses; title: Ch. 9. Learning to keep a cautious tongue: the reporting of mistakes in neurosurgery, 1890 to 1930; title: Ch. 10. Rush from judgment; title: Ch. 11. How should ethics consultants respond when careproviders have made or may have made a mistake? Beware of ethical fly paper!; title: Ch. 12. Taking responsibility for medical mistakes; title: Ch. 13. Dead wrong: error in clinical ethics consultation; title: Ch. 14. Moral residue; title: Ch. 15. Quality and error in bioethics consultation: a puzzle in pieces; title: Ch. 16. Errors in ethics consultation; title: Ch. 17. Margin of error: the sociology of ethics consultation; title: Ch. 18. Ethics consultation and the law: what is the standard of care?; title: Ch. 19. Continuous quality improvement in case reviews facilitated by hospital ethics committees; title: Ch. 20. Why medical ethicists don't (and won't) share uncertainty; title: Ch. 21. Errors in healthcare ethics consultation.