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Wrong Medicine : Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneiderman, L. J.
Otros Autores: Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?