Author(s)
Jecker, Nancy S.Keywords
Allowing to DieAncient History
Decision Making
Ethics
Futility
Goals
Health
Historical Aspects
Life
Medical Ethics
Medicine
Moral Policy
Nature
Patients
Physicians
Policy Analysis
Prolongation of Life
Resuscitation
Resuscitation Orders
Science
Standards
Values
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Abstract
Baconian science, a tool for plundering nature, has impelled physicians to insist on medical treatment even when it is futile. The Hippocratic tradition of medicine teaches us instead to acknowledge nature's limits.Date
2015-05-05Identifier
oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/73821010.2307/3563315
Hastings Center Report. 1991 May-Jun; 21(3): 5-8.
0093-0334
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3563315
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/738210