Making Sense of Advance Directives (Clinical Medical Ethics) - Hardcover

King, N.M.

 
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Synopsis

One: Introduction.- Two: Treatment Refusal and the Patient's Choice: Foundations in History, Law, and Ethics.- Three: The "Future Factor" Conceptual Foundations of Advance Directives.- Four: Advance Directives: Current Forms, Legal Fears, Moral Goals.- Five: When Choices Fail.- Six: The Forecast for Advance Directives: Indispensable or Superfluous?.- Bibliography: Books and Articles.- Bibliography: Cases and Statutes.- Appendix: Advance Directive Statutes, State-by-State Listing.

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About the Author

Nancy M.P. King is a lawyer and an professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Review

' Making Sense of Advance Directives is the best single book on this timely topic. It should be not only in the collections of academic libraries, but also in those of community and hospital libraries and in the reading rooms of ethics committees and clinical departments. ' Medical Humanities Review 6:2 1992

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ISBN 10:  9401054959 ISBN 13:  9789401054959
Publisher: Springer, 2012
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