Taking Advance Directives Seriously - Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life

Informationen zum Autor 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 in the Era of Genomic Medicine (2004). Klappentext In the years since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case set the precedent for advance directives--those documents a person can complete to ensure that health care choices are respected--Robert S. Olick rethinks and reinvigorates the case for patient and family control. He focuses on the philosophy, as well as the legal and policy questions--championing the human duty to take advance directives seriously. Choice called this book, "essential reading for professionals and practitioners," but its message of allowing human beings to have the choice to die in dignity is one that touches us all. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Place of Prospective Autonomy in Deciding for Incompetent Patients 2. The Ethical Foundations of Prospective Autonomy 3. Prospective Decisional Autonomy 4. The Problem of Personal Identity 5. Respecting Advance Directives: Putting Theory into Practice Conclusion Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert S Olick, Robert S. Olick, Robert S. (Associate Professor Olick, Olick Robert S.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2004
• EAN: 9781589010291
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-029-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Taking Advance Directives Seriously
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, LAW / Right to Die, Terminal care nursing, Palliative Medicine, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, MEDICAL / Pain Management, Ethical issues: euthanasia and right to die, Ethical Issues: Euthanasia & Right To Die