Books written by Raymond J. Devettere
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence, Fourth Edition
New Scholasticism 54 (1980): 200–12; Gilbert Meilaender, “The Distinction between Killing and Allowing to Die,” Theological Studies 37 (1976): 467–70; Raanan Gillon, “Euthanasia, Withholding Life-Prolonging Treatment, ...
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence, Fourth Edition
Dr. DeVries implanted the Jarvik7 as a permanent implant in three other patients, William Schroeder, Murray Haydon, and Jack Burcham. Schroeder lived 620 days but suffered four strokes and chronic infections that caused significant ...
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts, Third Edition
HE THIRD EDITION has added important new cases that have arisen since the last edition and attracted national interest, ... dispute between the family and Massachusetts General Hospital over withdrawing life-sustaining treatment), ...
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts
"Both a thorough resource & an ideal course book on medical ethics...deeply philosophical & eminently pragmatic."-Choice.
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Introduction to Virtue Ethics: Insights of the Ancient Greeks
This fascinating examination of the development of virtue ethics in the early stages of western civilization deals with a wide range of philosophers and schools of philosophy—from Socrates and the Stoics to Plato, Aristotle, and the ...
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Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts
This second edition includes new chapters on managed care and medical genetics, as well as an extended chapter on virtue and decision making.