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Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine
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Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine

Author: Susan B Rubin; Laurie Zoloth
Publisher: Hagerstown, Md. : University Pub. Group, ©2000.
Series: Ethics in clinical medicine series
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan B Rubin; Laurie Zoloth
ISBN: 1555720536 9781555720537
OCLC Number: 44646824
Description: x, 374 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Ch. 1. Framing our mistakes -- Ch. 2. To err is human: american culture, history, and medical error -- Ch. 3. The life-long-error, or John Marcher the Proleptic -- Ch. 4. Humility reconsidered -- Ch. 5. Mistakes in context -- Ch. 6. Facing our mistakes -- Ch. 7. Error in medicine -- Ch. 8. Mistakes in medicine: personal and moral responses -- Ch. 9. Learning to keep a cautious tongue: the reporting of mistakes in neurosurgery, 1890 to 1930 -- Ch. 10. Rush from judgment -- Ch. 11. How should ethics consultants respond when careproviders have made or may have made a mistake? Beware of ethical fly paper! -- Ch. 12. Taking responsibility for medical mistakes -- Ch. 13. Dead wrong: error in clinical ethics consultation -- Ch. 14. Moral residue -- Ch. 15. Quality and error in bioethics consultation: a puzzle in pieces -- Ch. 16. Errors in ethics consultation -- Ch. 17. Margin of error: the sociology of ethics consultation -- Ch. 18. Ethics consultation and the law: what is the standard of care? -- Ch. 19. Continuous quality improvement in case reviews facilitated by hospital ethics committees -- Ch. 20. Why medical ethicists don't (and won't) share uncertainty -- Ch. 21. Errors in healthcare ethics consultation.
Series Title: Ethics in clinical medicine series
Responsibility: edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.

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