title: Response to "Reading futility: reflections on a bioethical concept" by Donald Joralemon (CQ vol 11, no 2). The rise and fall of death: the plateau of futility.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Family and Preventive Medicine and Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: Lawrence J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Schneiderman
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Teetzel
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gilmer
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D018447:Medical Futility; D012922:Social Change