Margin of error : the ethics of mistakes in the practice of medicine / edited by Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth.

Includes bibliographical references Contents: Ch. 1. Framing our mistakes -- Ch. 2. To err is human: american culture, history, and medical error -- Ch. 3. The life-long-error, or John Marcher the Proleptic -- Ch. 4. Humility reconsidered -- Ch. 5. Mistakes in context -- Ch. 6. Facing our mistakes -- Ch. 7. Error in medicine -- Ch. 8. Mistakes in medicine: personal and moral responses -- Ch. 9. Learning to keep a cautious tongue: the reporting of mistakes in neurosurgery, 1890 to 1930 -- Ch. 10. Rush from judgment -- Ch. 11. How should ethics consultants respond when careproviders have made or may have made a mistake? Beware of ethical fly paper! -- Ch. 12. Taking responsibility for medical mistakes -- Ch. 13. Dead wrong: error in clinical ethics consultation -- Ch. 14. Moral residue -- Ch. 15. Quality and error in bioethics consultation: a puzzle in pieces -- Ch. 16. Errors in ethics consultation -- Ch. 17. Margin of error: the sociology of ethics consultation -- Ch. 18. Ethics consultation and the law: what is the standard of care? -- Ch. 19. Continuous quality improvement in case reviews facilitated by hospital ethics committees -- Ch. 20. Why medical ethicists don't (and won't) share uncertainty -- Ch. 21. Errors in healthcare ethics consultation