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When Doctors Say No The Battleground of Medical Futility

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ISBN-10: 0253334632

ISBN-13: 9780253334633

Edition: 1998

Authors: Susan B. Rubin

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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

SUSAN B. RUBIN is co-founder of The Ethics Practice, a firm devoted to providing bioethics education, research, and clinical consultation. She has published a number of articles in publications such as The Journal of Clinical Ethics and Theoretical Medicine and is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on mistakes in medicine and ethics consultation.

Acknowledgments
Whose Facts, Whose Values? An Overview of the Futility Debate
What Do People Mean by Futility? A Conceptual Analysis
A Question of Values: The Problem with Evaluative Futility
The Power of Positivist Thinking: The Problem with Physiologic Futility
After Futility: A Different Kind of Discourse
Notes
Bibliography
Index