The Utility of Futility: the construction of bioethical problems
The aim of this article is to analyse the contemporary ‘futility discourse’ from a constructivist perspective. I will argue that bioethics discourse typically disregards the con text from which controversies emerge and the processes that inform and constrain such discourse. Constructivists have argu...
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Sage
1998
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Nursing ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 5, Issue: 6, Pages: 509-517 |
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Futility
B life-support B Bioethics B Resuscitation B Constructivism |
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