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In The Purpose of Futility, Clare Rhoden surveys Australian Great War narratives, demonstrating their particularly Australian features which help to explain the unique and disputed position of the Great War in Australian history.--Provided by publisher
Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children E-Book by Dominic Wilkinson,Julian Savulescu Pdf
What should happen when doctors and parents disagree about what would be best for a child? When should courts become involved? Should life support be stopped against parents’ wishes? The case of Charlie Gard, reached global attention in 2017. It led to widespread debate about the ethics of disagreements between doctors and parents, about the place of the law in such disputes, and about the variation in approach between different parts of the world. In this book, medical ethicists Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu critically examine the ethical questions at the heart of disputes about medical treatment for children. They use the Gard case as a springboard to a wider discussion about the rights of parents, the harms of treatment, and the vital issue of limited resources. They discuss other prominent UK and international cases of disagreement and conflict. From opposite sides of the debate Wilkinson and Savulescu provocatively outline the strongest arguments in favour of and against treatment. They analyse some of the distinctive and challenging features of treatment disputes in the 21st century and argue that disagreement about controversial ethical questions is both inevitable and desirable. They outline a series of lessons from the Gard case and propose a radical new ‘dissensus’ framework for future cases of disagreement. This new book critically examines the core ethical questions at the heart of disputes about medical treatment for children. The contents review prominent cases of disagreement from the UK and internationally and analyse some of the distinctive and challenging features around treatment disputes in the 21st century. The book proposes a radical new framework for future cases of disagreement around the care of gravely ill people.
Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own. During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature’s potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.
Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2 by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan Pdf
Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2: Planning, Analysis, and Inferential Methods includes updates of established literature from the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials as well as original material based on the latest developments in clinical trials. Prepared by a leading expert, the second volume includes numerous contributions from current prominent experts in the field of medical research. In addition, the volume features: • Multiple new articles exploring emerging topics, such as evaluation methods with threshold, empirical likelihood methods, nonparametric ROC analysis, over- and under-dispersed models, and multi-armed bandit problems • Up-to-date research on the Cox proportional hazard model, frailty models, trial reports, intrarater reliability, conditional power, and the kappa index • Key qualitative issues including cost-effectiveness analysis, publication bias, and regulatory issues, which are crucial to the planning and data management of clinical trials
Author : John Donald Bruce Miller Publisher : Springer Page : 175 pages File Size : 55,9 Mb Release : 1986-06-18 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9781349075232
Medical futility is a controversial issue not only in its definition but also in its application. There are few books on the subject, and those in existence mostly focus on the situation in the United States. This title, however, provides extensive international perspectives on medical futility. This book will benefit healthcare professionals as well as health policy makers around the world. It allows them to see how different countries approach the issue of medical futility and their experiences in dealing with this issue. The complexity of the issue, and in particular how some countries innovatively address it in an ethically sound manner, is clearly presented. Contents:So-Called Futile Care: The Experience of the United States (Robert M Veatch)The Reality of Medical Futility (Dysthanasia) in Brazil (Leo Pessini and William Saad Hossne)Medical Futility and End-of-Life Issues in Belgium (Jan L Bernheim, Thierry Vansweevelt and Lieven Annemans)The Concept of Medical Futility in Venezuela (Gabriel d'Empaire)Medical Futility in the Russian Federation (Olga I Kubar, Galina L Mikirtichian and Marina I Petrova)Medical Futility in Australia (Dominique Martin)Medical Futility in Japan (Yasuhiro Kadooka and Atsushi Asai)Medical Futility in China: Ethical Issues and Policy (Yongxing Shi, Mingjie Zhao, Yang Yang, Cunfang Mao, Hui Zhu and Qingli Hu)Medical Futility in Korea (Ivo Kwon)Medical Futility from the Swiss Perspective (Tanja Krones and Settimio Monteverde)Medical Futility in Turkey (Berna Arda and Ahmet Aciduman)Medical Futility in the United Arab Emirates (Said Abuhasna and Ali Abdulkareem Al Obaidli)Medical Futility in Iran (Alireza Bagheri) Readership: Healthcare professionals, health policy makers, physicians and nurses, lawyers academics, researchers, graduate students and lay public. Keywords:Medical Futility;Bioethics;End of Life;Clinical Ethics;Healthcare SystemsKey Features:Each chapter discusses medical futility in a particular country, including the US, China, Australia, Switzerland, Brazil, Korea, Japan, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Russia, Italy, and TurkeyPresents experiences and challenges relating to medical futility in several countries with different cultural and economic backgroundsProvides information about the topic and elaborates on healthcare systems, payment and insurance systems as well as end-of-life issues in contributing countriesReviews: “The topic of ‘futility’ is at once important and controversial. Important because it deals with a critical element of end-of-life care, and yet controversial because of disagreements about its meaning and use. This superb collection of papers deals well and fully with those elements, and in a rich global context.” Daniel Callahan President Emeritus of the Hastings Center “As medical costs continue to escalate internationally and technology offers more and more chances of prolonging the length of life — but not necessarily its quality — it is vital that we think more clearly and systematically about what can be justifiably described as ‘medically futile’. Dr Bagheri's edited volume is a major contribution to this highly topical subject, and one of its great strengths is its international scope, with scholarly contributors from a wide range of countries in Europe, the Americas, Australia and Asia. The book should become a standard text for all courses in healthcare ethics.” Alastair V Campbell Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics National University of Singapore “Medical futility — a term that is often used but seldom clearly understood — is the quintessential bioethics topic, combining as it does philosophical questions about the ends of medicine, central issues in physician-patient and patient-family relations, and controversies about societal obligations to continue care that can extend life but not restore functioning. It is thus perfect for the sort of comparative examination that this cross-national volume so richly provides. The chapters are individually fascinating, while collectively illuminating how historical, cultural, economic, political and philosophical differences make medical futility such a rich subject for study and such a difficult issue to resolve clinically.” Alexander M Capron University Professor, University of Southern California; former Director of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law, World Health Organization “Bagheri and his colleagues give a fascinating account of change in concepts of medical futility and allied concepts in a world of globalization and knowledge sharing … and teach us that global exchanges of diverse cultural, religious, and socioeconomic beliefs and factors are invigorating both intranational and international debate over what constitutes medical futility, slowly but surely leading to changes in medical practices and policies that reflect the global pluralism of our age.” The American Journal of Bioethics
"The book is a fine addition to the world of academic medical ethics... Readers... will come away with some of the tools for further debate." -- Publishers Weekly "Susan B. Rubin's splendid new book... offers positive, humane solutions to the frustrations that have given rise to the futility debate." -- Carl Elliott, Medical Humanities Review "Rubin offers a thorough and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of futility as a basis for medical decisions." -- Choice "... [the] brilliant analysis found in Rubin's [book] couldn't be more timely.... When Doctors Say No is the most thorough philosophical rebuttal to be found in the literature of medical futility as the basis for unilateral decisionmaking by physicians." -- Charles Weijer, Canadian Medical Association Journal Should physicians be permitted to unilaterally refuse to provide treatment that they deem futile? Even if the patient, or the patient's family, insists that everything possible must be done? In this book, philosopher and bioethicist Rubin examines this controversial issue. She offers a critique of the concept of medical futility and the debate surrounding it, and she calls for more public debate about the underlying issues at stake for all of us -- patients, families, health care providers, insurers, and society at large.
The Futility of Philosophical Ethics by James Kirwan Pdf
The Futility of Philosophical Ethics puts forward a novel account of the grounds of moral feeling with fundamental implications for philosophical ethics. It examines the grounds of moral feeling by both the phenomenology of that feeling, and the facts of moral feeling in operation – particularly in forms such as moral luck, vicious virtues, and moral disgust – that appear paradoxical from the point of view of systematic ethics. Using an analytic approach, James Kirwan engages in the ongoing debates among contemporary philosophers within metaethics and normative ethics. Instead of trying to erase the variety of moral responses that exist in philosophical analysis under one totalizing system, Kirwan argues that such moral theorizing is futile. His analysis counters currently prevalent arguments that seek to render the origins of moral experience unproblematic by finding substitutes for realism in various forms of noncognitivism. In reasserting the problematic nature of moral experience, and offering a theory of the origins of that experience in unavoidable individual desires, Kirwan accounts for the diverse manifestations of moral feeling and demonstrates why so many arguments in metaethics and normative ethics are necessarily irresolvable.
The Futility of Law and Development by Jedidiah J. Kroncke Pdf
For all the attention paid to the Founder Fathers in contemporary American debates, it has almost been wholly forgotten how deeply they embraced an ambitious and intellectually profound valuation of foreign legal experience. Jedidiah Kroncke uses the Founders' serious engagement with, and often admiration for, Chinese law in the Revolutionary era to begin his history of how America lost this Founding commitment to legal cosmopolitanism and developed a contemporary legal culture both parochial in its resistance to engaging foreign legal experience and universalist in its messianic desire to export American law abroad. Kroncke reveals how the under-appreciated, but central role of Sino-American relations in this decline over two centuries, significantly reshaped in the early 20th century as American lawyer-missionaries helped inspire the first modern projects of American humanitarian internationalism through legal development. Often forgotten today after the rise of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, the Sino-American relationship in the early 20th century was a key crucible for articulating this vision as Americans first imagined waves of Americanization abroad in the wake of China's 1911 Republican revolution. Drawing in historical threads from religious, legal and foreign policy work, the book demonstrates how American comparative law ultimately became a marginalized practice in this process. The marginalization belies its central place in earlier eras of American political and legal reform. In doing so, the book reveals how the cosmopolitan dynamism so prevalent at the Founding is a lost virtue that today comprises a serious challenge to American legal culture and its capacity for legal innovation in the face of an increasingly competitive and multi-polar 21st century. Once again, America's relationship with China presents a critical opportunity to recapture this lost virtue and stimulate the searching cosmopolitanism that helped forge the original foundations of American democracy.
British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform by Warren A. Chin Pdf
Originally published in 2004. This incisive work reveals the causes of escalating costs and delays in British defence procurement from 1945 to the present. Tackling a complex subject in a straightforward and readable manner, it considers how successive British governments reacted to this problem, why they adopted the reforms they did and why these reforms failed to have any meaningful effect on the operation of this process. The study draws upon a number of disciplines such as economics, politics and science and engineering to provide a broad synthesis that allows the reader to understand the technicalities of the process. The conclusion reached is that there is no apparent solution to the problem of intergenerational costs of weapons, but that a key to controlling the growing cost of projects during their development lies in the construction of a more effective research and development strategy, a path followed by Margaret Thatcher's predecessors and one that is also being advocated today.
Author : Joseph P. DeMarco,Gary E. Jones Publisher : Broadview Press Page : 448 pages File Size : 40,8 Mb Release : 2017-04-15 Category : Medical ISBN : 9781460406052
Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies by Joseph P. DeMarco,Gary E. Jones Pdf
Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies is a case-based introduction to ethical issues in health care. Through seventy-eight compelling scenarios, the authors demonstrate the practical importance of ethics, showing how the concerns at issue bear on the lives of patients, health-care providers, and others. Many central topics are covered, including informed consent, medical futility, reproductive ethics, privacy, cultural competence, and clinical trials. Each chapter includes a selection of important legal cases as well as clinical case studies for critical analysis. The case studies are often presented as moral dilemmas and are conducive to rich discussion. A companion website offers a curated collection of relevant legal precedents along with additional case studies and other resources.
Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care by Nathan Emmerich,Pierre Mallia,Bert Gordijn,Francesca Pistoia Pdf
This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice. Specific attention is paid to the intensification of treatment for terminal symptoms, particularly pain relief, and the withdrawal and withholding of care, particularly life-saving or life-prolonging medical care. The book is structured into three sections. The first section contains essays examining end of life care from the perspective of moral theory and theology. The second sets out various conceptual terms and distinctions relevant to decision-making at the end of life. The third section contains chapters that focus on substantive ethical issues. This format not only provides for a comprehensive analysis of the ethical issues that arise in the context of end of life care but allows readers to effectively trace the philosophical, theological and conceptual underpinnings that inform their specific interests. This work will be of interest to scholars working in the area as well as clinicians, specialists and healthcare professionals who encounter these issues in the course of their practice.
