Brain, Vol. 123, No. 11, 2361,
November 2000
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ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN NEUROLOGY
By Adam Zeman and Linda Emanuel. 2000. Sidcup: Harcourt Publishers Limited. Price £55. Pp. 219. ISBN 9-780702-022272.
Guy's Hospital, London, UK
This is Volume 36 in the W. B. Saunders series `Major Problems in Neurology', and has been written by a clinical neurologist from the UK and a medical ethicist from the US. There are 17 chapters by different authors: 10 from the UK, 10 from the US, and one each from New Zealand and Cuba. The content therefore largely reflects the ethical problems and attitudes of Anglo-American medicine. Each chapter heading poses a question and there