On this blog, Professor Thaddeus Pope tracks judicial, legislative, policy, and academic developments concerning medical futility and the limits on individual autonomy at the end of life.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Seven Forthcoming Futility Articles

There are seven short articles on medical futility published OnlineFirst over the past few weeks in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.

Same Coin-Different Sides? Futility and Patient Refusal of Treatment
Eleanor Milligan

Futility Determination as a Process: Problems with Medical Sovereignty, Legal Issues and the Strengths and Weakness of the Procedural Approach
Cameron Stewart

No Chance, No Value, or No Way: Reassessing the Place of Futility in Health Care and Bioethics
Sarah Winch and Ian Kerridge

Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care
Lawrence J. Schneiderman

The Futility of Futility: Death Causation is the ‘Elephant in the Room’ in Discussions about Limitation of Medical Treatment
Michael A. Ashby

Minimally Conscious States, Deep Brain Stimulation, and What is Worse than Futility
Grant Gillett

Medical Futility and the Death of a Child
Nancy S. Jecker

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