When Life Ends - Legal Overviews, Medicolegal Forms, and Hospital Policies

List of contents

Foreword by Louis Lemberg
Preface
Introduction
Legal Overviews
Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
Living Wills
Surrogate Decision Making
Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Do Not Resuscitate Order
Patient Self-Determination Act
Medicolegal Forms and Hospital Policies
Informed Consent
Refusal of Treatment by Patients
Living Wills
Surrogate Decision Making
Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
Do Not Resuscitate Orders
Patient Self-Determination Act
Table of Cases
Legal Citations References
Index

About the author

Arthur S. Berger

Product details

• Authors: Arthur S. Berger, Berger Arthur S.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1995
• EAN: 9780275946203
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94620-3
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Terminal Care, Pain & pain management, United States of America, USA, Pain and pain management, Terminal care nursing, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, MEDICAL / Pain Management, Health and Wellness