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The book is directed primarily at clinician . . . [and] is also accessible to intelligent readers generally. It can provide help to individuals as they develop or revise their own directives, and it can aid administrators and institutional ethics committees as they struggle with policy and procedural issues . . . the best single book on this timely topic.
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