Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment
Author:   Lawrence J. Schneiderman, MD (Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine) ,  Nancy S. Jecker (Professor, University of Washington)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   second edition
ISBN:  

9780801898501


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   10 June 2011
Recommended Age:   From 17
Format:   Hardback
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Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment


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Author:   Lawrence J. Schneiderman, MD (Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine) ,  Nancy S. Jecker (Professor, University of Washington)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   second edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801898501


ISBN 10:   0801898501
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   10 June 2011
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

"Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments 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 Say, ""Do Everything!"" 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. The High Points: Medical Futility 11. Medical Futility: Where Do We Stand Now? Notes Index"

Reviews

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. (New England Journal of Medicine) A lucid and important contribution to the field that moves us toward both a more scientific and a more humane approach to making treatment decisions at the end of life. (Health Affairs)


Author Information

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., is an emeritus 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 a professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities and an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy and School of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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