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The ethics of medical futility
1Department of Philosophy, Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Critical Care Clinics
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
This article traces the evolution of the debate between the futility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the patient's right to consent, analyzing its origins in the 1970s and examining new policies recommended by the American Medical Association in 1991.