Conceptual and Moral Disputes About Futile and Useful Treatments  

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Kopelman, Loretta M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 20 no. 2 (Apr. 1995), page 109-121.
Topik: Futility; Ethics; Physician Authority; Consent

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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A series of cases have crystalled disputes about when medical treatments are useful or futile, and consequently about the doctor-patient relationship, resource allocation, communication, empathy, relief of suffering, autonomy, undertreatment, overtreatment, paternalism and palliative care. It is helpful to understand that utility and futility are complimentary concepts and that judgements about whether treatments are useful or futile in the contested cases have common features. They are: (1) grounded in medical Science, (2) value laden, (3) at or near the threshold of utility, and (4)burdensome. No schema for line drawing escapes borderline cases and we should focus upon justification of the empirical, ethical and evaluative components underlying these judgments, rather than make an arbitary decision about whether doctors, patients or societal consensus should be the final arbiter.

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