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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Main Author: Carnevale, Franco A (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 1998
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 5, Issue: 6, Pages: 509-517
Further subjects:B Futility
B life-support
B Bioethics
B Resuscitation
B Constructivism
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