Patient in the Family: An Ethics of Medicine and Families

The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the stucture of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and how to understand the impact on families of medical advances to extend life but not vitality.Nelson, Hilde Lindemann is the author of 'Patient in the Family: An Ethics of Medicine and Families' with ISBN 9780415911283 and ISBN 0415911281.