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Taking Advance Directives Seriously
Robert S. Olick
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Description for Taking Advance Directives Seriously
Paperback. Examining the tension between incompetent patients' wishes and their interests as well as other challenges to advance directives, this title offers a comprehensive argument for favoring advance instructions during the dying process. It presents and develops a theory of prospective autonomy that recasts and strengthens patient and family control. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of bioethics. Patients now legally can write advance directives to govern their treatment decisions at a time of future incapacity, yet in clinical practice their wishes often are ignored. Examining the tension between incompetent patients' prior wishes and their current best interests as well as other challenges to advance directives, Robert S. Olick offers a comprehensive argument for favoring advance instructions during the dying process. He clarifies widespread confusion about the moral ... Read more
In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of bioethics. Patients now legally can write advance directives to govern their treatment decisions at a time of future incapacity, yet in clinical practice their wishes often are ignored. Examining the tension between incompetent patients' prior wishes and their current best interests as well as other challenges to advance directives, Robert S. Olick offers a comprehensive argument for favoring advance instructions during the dying process. He clarifies widespread confusion about the moral ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589010291
SKU
V9781589010291
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About Robert S. Olick
Robert S. Olick is associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University. He formerly served as executive director of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, where he was a principal author and legislative architect of that state's advance directives law. Dr. Olick is coauthor of the book, The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law ... Read more
Reviews for Taking Advance Directives Seriously
This book will be an important resource for physicians, medical ethicists, and other health care professionals as they deal with the rights and prerogatives of the dying and the legal and policy questions surrounding the choices to be made in the conduct of their care. New Jersey Medicine Disquieted that the wishes of dying patients do not direct care at ... Read more