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Making Sense of Advance Directives - revised edition (Paperback, revised edition)
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Making Sense of Advance Directives - revised edition (Paperback, revised edition)
Series: Clinical Medical Ethics series
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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. Nancy M.P. King provides a legal, philosophical,
and historical analysis of the moral and legal force of advance
directives. She explains the types and models of advance directives
currently in use and offers guidelines for individuals seeking to
write, read, and use directives to promote individuals' health care
choices within the laws of their own states. King emphasizes that
advance directives are not orders given by patients to their
doctors; instead, they are documents that invite conversation
between doctors and patients about health care decisions of great
importance. The purpose of advance directives is to support
patients' health care choices, and the book promotes a thoughtful
use of advance directives that is best calculated to achieve that
purpose, whatever form individual advance directives may take. This
new edition has been updated to reflect the many changes in advance
directive statutes since 1991, including expanded discussions of
health care proxy statutes, the impact of the Patient
Self-Determination Act and the Supreme Court's Cruzan decision.
King also has extended her analysis of the implications for advance
directives of managed care, resource allocation, resource scarcity,
and the debate over futile treatment at the end of life. "Making
Sense of Advance Directives" is a valuable handbook for patients,
health care providers and administrators, patient counselors,
lawyers, policymakers, and any individual interested in advance
directives.
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