Wrong medicine doctors, patients, and futile treatment
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Baltimore, Md.
The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [195] - 220 |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 230 S. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0801898501 0-8018-9850-1 080189851X 0-8018-9851-X 9780801898501 978-0-8018-9850-1 9780801898518 978-0-8018-9851-8 |