Wrong Medicine Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment

Name: Wrong Medicine Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment
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ISBN: 9780801863721

ISBN-10: 0801863724

ISBN-13: 9780801863721

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker

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In Wrong Medicine, Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., and Nancy S. Jecker, 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

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.



Acknowledgments


Are Doctors Supposed to Be Doing This?


Why It Is Hard to Say No


Why We Must Say No


Families Who Want Everything Done


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


Summing Up: Medical Futility


Notes


Index