Death Foretold
Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care
374 pages, 14 line drawings, 5 tables 6 x 9
©
1999
Cloth $30.00
ISBN: 9780226104706
Published February 2000
Paper $18.00
ISBN: 9780226104713
Published April 2001
Preface
1. Prognosis in Medicine
2. Making Use of Prognosis
3. Error and Accountability in Prognostication
4. Professional Norms Regarding Prognostication
5. Telling Patients Their Prognosis
6. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
7. The Ritualization of Optimism and Pessimism
8. A Duty to Prognosticate
Appendix 1: Original Sources of Data
Appendix 2: Detailed Survey Experiment Results
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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