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.
