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Making Sense of Advance Directives
Nancy M. P. King
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Description for Making Sense of Advance Directives
paperback. Series: Clinical Medical Ethics. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
The first time I read the medical consent and authorization. it had registered in my mind simply as a legal document. Now I began to understand what it meant. It was a letter of ultimate love and trust. (Schucking. 1985. p. 268) Ever since Karen Ann Quinlan slipped into permanent unconsciousness in 1975 and her father agonized publicly over whether she should remain indefinitely on a respirator (In re Quinlan, 1976), the desires of patients, their families, and their friends to limit the application of apparently limitless medical technology have been a pressing concern for ethics, law, and public policy. ... Read more
The first time I read the medical consent and authorization. it had registered in my mind simply as a legal document. Now I began to understand what it meant. It was a letter of ultimate love and trust. (Schucking. 1985. p. 268) Ever since Karen Ann Quinlan slipped into permanent unconsciousness in 1975 and her father agonized publicly over whether she should remain indefinitely on a respirator (In re Quinlan, 1976), the desires of patients, their families, and their friends to limit the application of apparently limitless medical technology have been a pressing concern for ethics, law, and public policy. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Series
Clinical Medical Ethics
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401054959
SKU
V9789401054959
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Reviews for Making Sense of Advance Directives
' 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