Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation: North American and European Perspectives

Part 1: History and Development of the Formation and Training of Clinical Ethics Consultants.- Chapter 1. A Brief Introduction to the History of Clinical Ethics in the United States (Robert Baker).- Chapter 2. Clinical Ethics Consultation in the United States: Current Standards in the Field (Anita Tarzian).- Chapter 3. What Does Competency Have to Do with It? Ethics fellowship training and the experience of a hospital-based program in Canada (Dave Langlois).- Chapter 4. Models of Training Clinical Ethics Consultants and Approaches to Quality Assessment and Improvement (Katherine Wasson).- Chapter 5. New Approaches for Advancing Ethics Quality: Assessment of the Ethics Consultation Record (David Alfandre).- Chapter 6. Historical Development of Clinical Ethics Consultation in Europe (Ralf Jox).- Chapter 7. Clinical Ethics Consultation in Germany: History, Current Status and Models of Training Europe (Gerald Neitzke).- Chapter 8. Innovation or Stagnation: The State of Art of Clinical Ethics Support in Switzerland (Rouven Porz).- Part 2: Emerging and Thorny Clinical Ethical Issues.- Chapter 9. Clinical Ethics Consultation and Marginalized Populations (Marion Danis).- Chapter 10. Vulnerable populations, the Law of the Dynamics of Inverse Care, and the role of the Clinical Ethics Consultant: Experiences from Switzerland (Tonja Krones).- Chapter 11. Clinical Ethics Consultations regarding Patients with Opioid Use Disorders (Mark Kuczewski).- Chapter 12. The Opioid Crisis: An European Perspective (Ralf Jox).- Chapter 13. Ethical Issues in Complex Discharge Cases (Kayhan Parsi).- Chapter 14. How Clinical Ethics Consultants Navigate Complex Acute Care Discharge Cases in Ontario (Sally Bean).- Chapter 15. Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation: When Surrogates Refuse Basic Care (Sarah Vittone).- Chapter 16. Families Who Micromanage (Patricia Mayer).- Part 3: Persistent and Thorny Ethical Issues.- Chapter 17. Neuroethics in the Clinic: Amplifying patient perspectives through enhanced decision-making frameworks (Sharon L. Feldman).- Chapter 18. Brain Death/Death by Neurological Criteria in the United States: What Every Clinical Ethics Consultant Should Know (Sok Lee).- Chapter 19. When patients still hope, but doctors see no more therapeutic options: Ethical debates on futility and potentially inappropriate treatment (Christoph Mandry).- Chapter 20. Physician Aid in Dying in the United States: A Prescription for Death or Control? (Felicia Cohn).- Chapter 21. Medical Aid in Dying in Canada: Undertaking Clinical Ethics Consultations in a Rapidly Evolving Regulatory Landscape (Benjamin Zolf).- Chapter 22. Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the European Context (Charlotte Wetterauer).- Chapter 23. Pediatric Ethical Issues and Clinical Ethics Consultation in the United States (Micah Hester).- Chapter 24. Ethical Issues and Decision Making for Children: An European Perspective (Helen Turnham).- Chapter 25. The Adolescent Transplant Candidate: Thorny Issues in Assessment and Allocation from a Canadian Perspective (Aviva Goldberg).- Chapter 26. Classifying the Contradiction: A Practical Approach When Surrogates Appear to Contradict a Patient's Wishes (Hilary Mabel).- Chapter 27. Thorny Issues in Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Canadian Perspective on Surrogate Decision Making Concerning Potentially Non-Beneficial Care (Katarina Lee-Ameduri).- Part 4: Organizational Issues in United States Ethics Consultation.- Chapter 28. Moving Ethics Upstream: Shifting Clinical Ethics Consultation from Volume to Value (Mark Repenshek).- Chapter 29. The Tension between "Margin and Mission" as an Ethical Issue in Health Care (Patrick McCruden).