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Medically Inappropriate or Futile Treatment: Deliberation and Justification

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: This paper reframes the futility debate, moving away from the question "Who decides when to end what is considered to be a medically inappropriate or futile treatment?" and toward the question "How can society make policy that will best account for the multitude of values and conflicts involved in such decision-making?" It offers a pragmatist moral epistemology that provides us with (1) a clear justification of why it is important to take best standards, norms, and physician judgment seriously and (2) a clear justification of why ample opportunity must be made for patients, families, and society to challenge those standards and norms.

Source: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhv035

Authors: Cheryl J. Misak, Douglas B. White, Robert D. Truog

Institutions: Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Toronto

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2255093991

FWCI: 4.28

Cites: 36

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10