When Doctors Say No - The Battleground of Medical Futility

She offers a critique of the concept of medical futility and the debate surrounding it, and she calls for more public debate about the underlying issues at stake for all of us-patients, families, health care providers, insurers, and society at large.

List of contents

Chapter One. Whose Facts, Whose Values? An Overview of the Futility Debate

Chapter Two. What Do People Mean By Futility? A Conceptual Analysis

Chapter Three. A Question of Values: The Problem With Evaluative Futility

Chapter Four. The Power of Positivist Thinking: The Problem With Physiological Futility

Chapter Five. After Futility: A Different Kind of Discourse

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Susan B. Rubin

Summary

A brilliant critique of "medical futility" and the debate over who has the right to cease or refuse medical treatment.

Product details

• Authors: Susan B Rubin, Susan B. Rubin, Rubin Susan B
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.1998
• EAN: 9780253334633
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33463-3
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: Medical Ethics; Indiana University Press; Medical Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General