Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contributors
- 1 Medical futility: a useful concept?
- 2 Death with dignity?
- 3 Physicians and medical futility: experience in the critical care setting
- 4 Physicians and medical futility: experience in the setting of general medical care
- 5 Futility issues in pediatrics
- 6 Medical futility: a nursing home perspective
- 7 Alternative medicine and medical futility
- 8 How culture and religion affect attitudes toward medical futility
- 9 When religious beliefs and medical judgments conflict: civic polity and the social good
- 10 Conflict resolution: experience of consultation-liaison psychiatrists
- 11 Ethics committees and end-of-life decision making
- 12 The economics of futile interventions
- 13 Medical futility: a legal perspective
- 14 Professional and public community projects for developing medical futility guidelines
- 15 Community futility policies: the illusion of consensus?
- 16 Not quite the last word: scenarios and solutions
- Index of cited authors, cases, and statutes
- Subject index
Index of cited authors, cases, and statutes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contributors
- 1 Medical futility: a useful concept?
- 2 Death with dignity?
- 3 Physicians and medical futility: experience in the critical care setting
- 4 Physicians and medical futility: experience in the setting of general medical care
- 5 Futility issues in pediatrics
- 6 Medical futility: a nursing home perspective
- 7 Alternative medicine and medical futility
- 8 How culture and religion affect attitudes toward medical futility
- 9 When religious beliefs and medical judgments conflict: civic polity and the social good
- 10 Conflict resolution: experience of consultation-liaison psychiatrists
- 11 Ethics committees and end-of-life decision making
- 12 The economics of futile interventions
- 13 Medical futility: a legal perspective
- 14 Professional and public community projects for developing medical futility guidelines
- 15 Community futility policies: the illusion of consensus?
- 16 Not quite the last word: scenarios and solutions
- Index of cited authors, cases, and statutes
- Subject index
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- Medical FutilityAnd the Evaluation of Life-Sustaining Interventions, pp. 193 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997