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Medical Futility : A Useful Concept? / Howard Brody -- Death With Dignity? / Patricia Brophy -- Physicians And Medical Futility : Experience In The Critical Care Setting / Harry S. Rafkin, And Thomas Rainey -- Physicians And Medical Futility : Experience In The Setting Of General Medical Care / Norton Spritz -- Futility Issues In Pediatrics / Joel E. Frader, And Jon Watchko -- Medical Futility : A Nursing Home Perspective / Ellen Knapik Bartoldus -- Alternative Medicine And Medical Futility / Joseph J. Jacobs -- How Culture And Religion Affect Attitudes Toward Medical Futility / Mary F. Morrison, And Sarah Gelbach Demichele -- When Religious Beliefs And Medical Judgements Conflict : Civic Polity And The Social Good / John J. Paris, And Mark Poorman -- Conflict Resolution : Experience Of Consultation-liaison Psychiatrists / James J. Strain, Stephen L. Snyder, And Martin Drooker -- Ethics Committees And End-of-life Decision Making / Alice Herb, And Eliot J. Lazar -- The Economics Of Futile Interventions / Donald J. Murphy -- Medical Futility : A Legal Perspective / William Prip, And Anna Moretti -- Professional And Public Community Projects For Developing Medical Futility Guidelines / Linda Johnson, And Robert Lyman Potter -- Community Futility Policies : The. Illusion Of Consensus? / Bethany Spielman -- Not Quite The Last Word : Scenarios And Solutions / Karen Orloff Kaplan. Edited By Marjorie B. Zucker, Howard D. Zucker. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is either to extend costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or to terminate treatment, thereby ending the patient's life. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer perspectives on issues ranging from the definition of medical futility to the implications for care in various clinical settings, including intensive care, neonatal and pediatric practice and nursing homes. An important contribution toward the more humane and consistent handling of these situations, Medical Futility will be obligatory reading for health care professionals, students, and scholars concerned with ethical standards in medical care. This book surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is between extending or terminating costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness over a patient's life A wide-ranging and authoritative survey of the complex issue of futile medical treatments