Download Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2000-03-03
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0801863724
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 offer clear definitions of what constitutes futile medical treatment. And they address such topics as the limits on unwanted treatment, the shift from the "Age of Physician Paternalism" to the "Age of Patient Autonomy," health care rationing, and the adoption of new ethical standards. Download Wrong Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

Download Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment pdf