Who Lives? Who Dies?: Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection

PUBLISHED: January 1, 1990 PUBLISHER: Yale Univ Pr ISBN: 9780300046809

Kilner (social and medical ethics, Asbury Theological Seminary) examines 16 patient-selection criteria in the light of a full range of ethical arguments, and also puts them in cross-cultural perspective by comparing them to criteria employed in Kenya, where he interviewed government and missionary personnel and traditional healers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.