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Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment

Title
Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker.
Author
Schneiderman, L. J.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld.
Description
x, 200 pages; 24 cm
Summary
As medical costs soar and technologies proliferate, an intense controversy has arisen over the notion of medical futility. Should doctors be doing all that they are doing? Are patients and families entitled to demand any treatment they wish from a physician? Should life-support be considered futile if the patient is permanently unconscious or too sick to leave the intensive care setting? In exploring these timely questions, Schneiderman and Jecker reexamine the doctor-patient relationship and call for a restoration of common sense and reality to what we expect from medicine. They discuss economic, historical, and demographic factors that affect medical care and often clear definitions of what constitutes futile medical treatment. And they address such topics as the limits on unwanted treatment, the shifts from the "Age of Physician Paternalism" to the "Age of Patient Autonomy," health care rationing, and the adoption of new ethical standards.
Subject
  • Medical ethics
  • Surgery, Unnecessary
  • Medicine > Decision making
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Medical Futility
  • Euthanasie
  • Medische ethiek
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-193) and index.
Contents
1. Are Doctors Supposed to Be Doing This? -- 2. Why It Is Hard to Say No -- 3. Why We Must Say No -- 4. Families Who Want Everything Done -- 5. Futility and Rationing -- 6. Medical Futility in a Litigious Society -- 7. Ethical Implications of Medical Futility -- 8. The Way It Is Now/The Way It Ought to Be: For Patients -- 9. The Way It Is Now/The Way It Ought To Be: For Health Professionals -- 10. Summing Up: Medical Futility.
ISBN
  • 0801850363
  • 9780801850363
LCCN
94038799
OCLC
  • ocm31291173
  • 31291173
  • SCSB-2095320
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library