• Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: doctors, patients, and futile treatment
    [NT 47261] Author: SchneidermanL. J,
    [NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: JeckerNancy Ann Silbergeld,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Baltimore
    [NT 47263] Published: Johns Hopkins University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2011
    [NT 50960] Edition: 2nd ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (xi, 230 p.).
    [NT 47266] Subject: Medical Futility -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Ethics, Medical -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Medicine - Decision making -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Surgery, Unnecessary -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Medical ethics -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421401089/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9781421401089electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 1421401088electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780801898501hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0801898501hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780801898518pbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 080189851Xpbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Are doctors supposed to be doing this? -- Why it is hard to say no -- Why we must say no -- Families who say, "do everything!" -- Futility and rationing -- Medical futility in a litigious society -- Ethical implications of medical futility -- The way it is now/the way it ought to be : for patients -- The way it is now/the way it ought to be : for health professionals -- The high points : medical futility -- Medical futility : where do we stand now?
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