Medical futility : and the evaluation of life-sustaining interventions

Preface Foreword Alexander Morgan Capron Contributors 1. Medical futility: a useful concept? Howard Brody 2. Death with dignity Patricia Brophy 3. Physicians and medical futility: experience in the critical care setting Harry S. Rafkin and Thomas Rainey 4. Physicians and medical futility: experience in the setting of general medical care Norton Spritz 5. Futility issues in pediatrics Joel E. Frader and Jon Watchko 6. Medical futility: a nusing home perspective Ellen Knapik Bartoldus 7. Alternative medicine and medical futility Joseph J. Jacobs 8. How culture and religion affect attitudes toward medical futility Mary F. Morrison and Sarah Gelbach DeMichele 9. When religious views and medical judgements conflict: civic polity and the social good John J. Paris and Mark Poorman 10. Conflict resolution: experience of consultation-liaison psychiatrists James J. Strain, Stephen L. Snyder and Martin Drooker 11. Ethics committees and end of life decision making Alice Herb and Eliot J. Lazar 12. The economics of futile interventions Donald J. Murphy 13. Medical futility: a legal perspective William Prip and Anna Moretti 14. Professional and public community projects for developing medical futility guidelines Linda Johnson and Robert Lyman Potter 15. Community futility policies: the illusion of consensus? Bethany Spielman 16. Not quite the last word: scenarios and solutions Karen Orloff Kaplan Indexes.