The new futility? The rhetoric and role of “suffering” in pediatric decision-making

This article argues that while the presence and influence of “futility” as a concept in medical decision-making has declined over the past decade, medicine is seeing the rise of a new concept with similar features: suffering. Like futility, suffering may appear to have a consistent meaning, but in a...

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Autor principal: Salter, Erica K. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2020
En: Nursing ethics
Año: 2020, Volumen: 27, Número: 1, Páginas: 16-27
Otras palabras clave:B Decision-making
B Futility
B Suffering
B pediatric practice
B clinical ethics
B end-of-life issues
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