Overview

In Wrong Medicine, Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., and Nancy S. Jacker, Ph.D., address issues that have occupied the media and the courts since the time of Karen Ann Quinlan. The authors examine the ethics of cases in which medical treatment is offered - or mandated - even if a patient lacks the capacity to appreciate its benefit or if the treatment will still leave a patient totally dependent on intensive medical care.In exploring these timely issues 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 offer clear definitions of what constitutes futile medical treatment. And they address such topics as the limits on unwanted treatment, the shift from the ""Age of Physician Paternalism"" to the ""Age of Patient Autonomy"", health care rationing, and the adoption of new ethical standards.

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<p>A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem--one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution.--Arnold Relman, M.D., Editor-in-Chief (emeritus) New England Journal of Medicine

<p> A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem -- one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution. -- Arnold Relman, M.D., Editor-in-Chief (emeritus), New England Journal of Medicine

<p>A thoughtful discussion of a difficult and pervasive bioethical problem -- one made all the more critical by current concerns about limited resources. This book brings common sense to bear on one of the more intractable issues facing medical ethicists today. A useful and timely contribution.--Arnold Relman, M.D., Editor-in-Chief (emeritus) New England Journal of Medicine

Author Information

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego. Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, the Department of Philosophy, and the School of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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