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Gorovitz, Samuel.

Drawing the line : life, death, and ethical choices in an America n hospital / Samuel Gorovitz. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. - xiv, 195 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188) and index.

ISBN: 9780195044287 (alk. paper) 0195044282 (alk. paper) 0195044282 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston).
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hospitals.
Bioethical Issues.
Bioethics.
Ethics.
Patient care.
Decision making.
Abortion, Induced.
Advertising as Topic.
Aged.
Biomedical Technology.
Chronic disease.
Communication.
Computers.
Economics.
Education, Medical.
Entrepreneurship.
Euthanasia, Passive.
Fertilization in Vitro.
Fetus.
Health care rationing.
Health Facilities, Proprietary.
Heart Diseases.
Human Experimentation.
Internship and Residency.
Interprofessional Relations.
Judaism.
Life Support Care.
Nurses.
Organ Transplantation.
Organizational Policy.
Peer review.
Physicians.
Probability.
Professional-Patient Relations.
Quality of life.
Renal Dialysis.
Resource allocation.
Resuscitation Orders.
Stress (Physiology)
Students.
Uncertainty.
Ethics, Medical.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Case Reports.

National Library of Medicine Call No.: W 50 / G683d 1991