Darren's case: Narrative ethics in Perri Klass's Other Women's Children

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 267-286

  Jones, Anne Hudson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiction; Literature; Medical ethics; Narrative ethics; Pediatric AIDS; Principlism

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CONFLICT; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LITERATURE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL STRESS; NOTE; OTHER WOMEN'S CHILDREN (KLASS, P.); PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; OTHER WOMEN'S CHILDREN (KLASS, P.); PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BENEFICENCE; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JUDICIAL ROLE; LITERATURE, MODERN; MALE; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NARRATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PRINCIPLE-BASED ETHICS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0030158226     PISSN: 03605310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/21.3.267     Document Type: Article

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