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The Case of Terri Schiavo - Ethics at the End of Life (Paperback)
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The Case of Terri Schiavo - Ethics at the End of Life (Paperback)
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After the Nancy Cruzan case was decided by the Supreme Court in
1990, and ultimately resolved by the Courts of the State of
Missouri, the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging
nutrition and hydration appeared to many to be as noncontroversial
as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. Even the Catholic
Church held that, although there should be a presumption in favor
of providing nutrition and hydration, the patient or the patient's
surrogate could overrule this presumption, if either believed the
treatment was disproportionate or burdensome. The Schiavo case
changed all that. Although the decision to remove Terri Schiavo's
nutrition and hydration was made by her husband - her legal
surrogate - based on his wife's belief that such treatment was
disproportionate, Schiavo's immediate family protested so much that
the case took years to resolve. It eventually involved all branches
of government at both the state and federal levels. The ethical
dilemmas that such cases pose continue to stir great controversy.
This in-depth examination of these dilemmas provides information
and documentation from many perspectives. The editors have included
a foreword by Dr. Jay Wolfson, Terri Schiavo's court-appointed
guardian ad litem, as well as Dr. Wolfson's report to Gov. Jeb Bush
on the case and Gov. Bush's reply; public statements by President
George Bush and Senators David Weldon, Rick Santorum, Tom DeLay,
Bill Frist, and Barney Frank; statements by the pope and other
representatives of the Catholic Church on this issue; plus much
medical and legal background material on both precedents to the
Schiavo case and its aftermath, including the results of the
autopsy report. For anyone wishing an in-depth understanding of
these complex ethical issues, issues many of us will have to
confront in our own families, this volume is indispensable.
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