title: "Medical futility." Managed care and the powerful new vocabulary for clinical and public policy discourse.
authors.affiliation: San Francisco State University, CA, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zoloth-Dorfman
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Rubin
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003657:Decision Making; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006126:Group Processes; D017048:Health Care Costs; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards; D018447:Medical Futility; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment