Wrong medicine
Subtitle: doctors, patients, and futile treatment
By: Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker
Contributors: Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780801898501; 9780801898518
Subjects: Unnecessary Surgery; Medical Ethics; Medicine; Medical Futility; Medical ethics; Decision making
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Are doctors supposed to be doing this?; title: Why it is hard to say no; title: Why we must say no; title: Families who say, "do everything!"; title: Futility and rationing; title: Medical futility in a litigious society; title: Ethical implications of medical futility; title: The way it is now/the way it ought to be : for patients; title: The way it is now/the way it ought to be : for health professionals; title: The high points : medical futility; title: Medical futility : where do we stand now?