Futility and the goals of medicine

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 194-205

  Rhodes, Rosamond ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFLICT; CUSTODY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESUSCITATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

AGED; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GOALS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; LEGAL GUARDIANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0032086403     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. A version of this case was presented at SICU Ethics Rounds by Dr. Mayur Patel on 8 February 1995 at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
2. G. Kolata, "Withholding Care From Patients: Boston Case Asks, Who Decides?" New York Times, 3 April 1995, A1.
3. Vacco v. Quill, U.S. SupCt, No. 95-1858, 6/26/97; Washington v. Glucksburg, U.S. SupCt, No. 96-100, 6/22/97.
4. T.L. Beauchamp and J.F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
5. A few articles have discussed this issue, for example: M. Siegler, "Physicians' Refusals of Patient Demands: An Application of Medical Discernment," in Search Of Equity: Health Needs and the Health Care System, ed. R. Bayer, A.L. Caplan, and N. Daniels (New York: Plenum, 1983);
6. A.S. Brett and L.B. McCullough, "When Patients Request Specific Interventions: Defining the Limits of the Physician's Obligation," New England Journal of Medicine 315 (1986): 1347-51;
7. S. Leiken, "When Parents Demand Treatment," Pediatric Annals 4 (1989): 266-68.
8. C.C. Gauthier, "Philosophical Foundations of Respect for Autonomy," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3, no. 1 (1993): 21-37.
9. R. Veatch, "Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age," Hastings Center Report 2, no. 3 (June 1972): 5-7.
10. E.J. Emanuel and L.L. Emanuel, "Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship," Journal of the American Medical Association 267 (1992): 2221-26.