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Book Synopsis The Purpose of Futility by : Clare Rhoden
Download or read book The Purpose of Futility written by Clare Rhoden and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children E-Book by : Dominic Wilkinson
Download or read book Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children E-Book written by Dominic Wilkinson and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2 by : Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Download or read book Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2 written by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
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Book Synopsis Futile Pleasures by : Corey McEleney
Download or read book Futile Pleasures written by Corey McEleney and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis When Doctors Say No by : Susan B. Rubin
Download or read book When Doctors Say No written by Susan B. Rubin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis Norman Angell and the Futility of War by : John Donald Bruce Miller
Download or read book Norman Angell and the Futility of War written by John Donald Bruce Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Medical Futility by : Alireza Bagheri
Download or read book Medical Futility written by Alireza Bagheri and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Medical Futility by : Marjorie Bass Zucker
Download or read book Medical Futility written by Marjorie Bass Zucker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and authoritative survey of the complex issue of futile medical treatments.
Book Synopsis The Futility of Philosophical Ethics by : James Kirwan
Download or read book The Futility of Philosophical Ethics written by James Kirwan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Futility of Law and Development by : Jedidiah J. Kroncke
Download or read book The Futility of Law and Development written by Jedidiah J. Kroncke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform by : Warren A. Chin
Download or read book British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform written by Warren A. Chin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies by : Joseph P. DeMarco
Download or read book Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies written by Joseph P. DeMarco and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care by : Nathan Emmerich
Download or read book Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care written by Nathan Emmerich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology: Volume 2, 2007 by : Jeffrey L. Cummings
Download or read book Progress in Neurotherapeutics and Neuropsychopharmacology: Volume 2, 2007 written by Jeffrey L. Cummings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential update of recent clinical trials in the management of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Book Synopsis Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials by : Steven Piantadosi
Download or read book Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials written by Steven Piantadosi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 2573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive major reference work for our SpringerReference program covering clinical trials. Although the core of the Work will focus on the design, analysis, and interpretation of scientific data from clinical trials, a broad spectrum of clinical trial application areas will be covered in detail. This is an important time to develop such a Work, as drug safety and efficacy emphasizes the Clinical Trials process. Because of an immense and growing international disease burden, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies continue to develop new drugs. Clinical trials have also become extremely globalized in the past 15 years, with over 225,000 international trials ongoing at this point in time. Principles in Practice of Clinical Trials is truly an interdisciplinary that will be divided into the following areas: 1) Clinical Trials Basic Perspectives 2) Regulation and Oversight 3) Basic Trial Designs 4) Advanced Trial Designs 5) Analysis 6) Trial Publication 7) Topics Related Specific Populations and Legal Aspects of Clinical Trials The Work is designed to be comprised of 175 chapters and approximately 2500 pages. The Work will be oriented like many of our SpringerReference Handbooks, presenting detailed and comprehensive expository chapters on broad subjects. The Editors are major figures in the field of clinical trials, and both have written textbooks on the topic. There will also be a slate of 7-8 renowned associate editors that will edit individual sections of the Reference.
Book Synopsis Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Canadian Edition by : Nancy L. Caroline
Download or read book Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Canadian Edition written by Nancy L. Caroline and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paramedic Association of Canada, together with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Jones and Bartlett Publishers are proud to continue Dr. Nancy Caroline’s legacy by introducing Emergency Care in the Streets–Canadian Edition! Dr. Caroline’s work transformed EMS and the entire paramedic field. She created the first national standard curriculum for paramedic training in the United States. She also wrote the first paramedic textbook: Emergency Care in the Streets. In 2007, we welcomed back Emergency Care in the Streets with the publication of the Sixth Edition in the United States. Now, this program has been rewritten and revised by Canadian EMS experts specifically for Canadian paramedics, using the National Occupational Competency Profiles.
