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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b8193910.
- catalog contributor b8193911.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-193) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 200 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Wrong medicine.".
- catalog identifier "0801850363 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wrong medicine.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Wrong medicine.".
- catalog subject "1995 K-901".
- catalog subject "610.69/6 20".
- catalog subject "Decision Making.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Medical.".
- catalog subject "Medical Futility.".
- catalog subject "Medical ethics.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Decision making.".
- catalog subject "R724 .S3936 1995".
- catalog subject "Surgery, Unnecessary.".
- catalog subject "W 50 S359w 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Wrong medicine : doctors, patients, and futile treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker.".
- catalog type "text".