The renewed interest in active euthanasia and assisted suicide has occured in response to the power of medicine to extend life under poor circumstances and to impose aggressive, often unremitting treatment that appears ...

Callahan challenges assumptions about the meaning of health and the goals of health care in an essay on the future of American medicine. He believes that medical advances have exacted a high human cost, creating a greater ...

This case pertains to sixty-one-year-old AT, who has recently been confined to a wheelchair by progressive osteoarthritis in his right hip, which causes him considerable pain. Formerly an active individual -- an avid ...

...What I find most interesting about the struggles over medical futility and necessity is just the fact (watch that word!) that both began with the naive expectation that they could be solved with good medical information. ...