The sanctity of social life: physicians' treatment of critically ill patients
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