When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children

by David J. Bearison

Book Overview

Medical care of the terminally ill is one of the most emotionally fraught and controversial issues before the public today. As medicine advances and technologies develop, end-of-life care becomes more individualized and uncertain, guided less by science and more by values and beliefs. The crux of the controversy is when to withhold or withdraw curative treatments--when is enough, enough?
Political debates rage about when treatment is no longer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195156129
• ISBN13: 9780195156126
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"