Medical futility and the evaluation of life-sustaining interventions / edited by Marjorie B. Zucker, Howard D. Zucker.

Medical futility : a useful concept? / Howard Brody
Death with dignity? / Patricia Brophy
Physicians and medical futility : experience in the critical care setting / Harry S. Rafkin, and Thomas Rainey
Physicians and medical futility : experience in the setting of general medical care / Norton Spritz
Futility issues in pediatrics / Joel E. Frader, and Jon Watchko
Medical futility : a nursing home perspective / Ellen Knapik Bartoldus
Alternative medicine and medical futility / Joseph J. Jacobs
How culture and religion affect attitudes toward medical futility / Mary F. Morrison, and Sarah Gelbach DeMichele
When religious beliefs and medical judgements conflict : civic polity and the social good / John J. Paris, and Mark Poorman
Conflict resolution : experience of consultation-liaison psychiatrists / James J. Strain, Stephen L. Snyder, and Martin Drooker
Ethics committees and end-of-life decision making / Alice Herb, and Eliot J. Lazar
The economics of futile interventions / Donald J. Murphy
Medical futility : a legal perspective / William Prip, and Anna Moretti
Professional and public community projects for developing medical futility guidelines / Linda Johnson, and Robert Lyman Potter
Community futility policies : the illusion of consensus? / Bethany Spielman
Not quite the last word : scenarios and solutions / Karen Orloff Kaplan.