Making Sense of Advance Directives - Revised Edition

The Clinical Medical Ethics series explores central themes and issues in bioethics and health care policy in single-author short volumes. Written to be accessible to physicians, nurses, lawyers, and those working on health policy, not just specialists in ethics or bioethics, each volume offers a new approach to the subject matter and provides a synthetic account of complex literature.

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.

Summary

Advance directives - such as living wills and health care proxies - are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy M P King, Nancy M. P. King, Nancy M.P. King
• Assisted by: Nancy M. P. King (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1996
• EAN: 9780878406050
• ISBN: 978-0-87840-605-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Clinical Medical Ethics; Clinical Medical Ethics series; Clinical Medical Ethics; Clinical Medical Ethics series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Right to Die, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Ethical issues: euthanasia and right to die, Ethical Issues: Euthanasia & Right To Die