Contents
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Controversy and the Clinical Mentality: Some Methodological Problems and Their Effects on the Research Design
Part I: Criteria for Decision-Making
3. Decisions to Treat Critically Ill Patients: Social Versus Medical Considerations
4. The Terminal Patient: Treatment of the Dying and the Dead
5. Decision-Making Viewed Through Hospital Records
Part II: Sources of Variation Among Physicians: Some Organizational, Social, and Cultural Variables
6. Context for Decision-Making: The Hospital Setting
7. The Active Physician: Cultural Influences Upon Medical Decisions
8. Departmental Dynamics and the Development of New Medical Technology
9. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Charts
Appendix 2: Questionnaires
Glossary of Medical Terms
Bibliography
Index