Making Sense of Advance Directives

N.M. King (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

215 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-5495-9 (ISBN)

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The first time I read the medical consent and authorization. it had registered in my mind simply as a legal document. Now I began to understand what it meant. It was a letter of ultimate love and trust. (Schucking. 1985. p. 268) Ever since Karen Ann Quinlan slipped into permanent unconsciousness in 1975 and her father agonized publicly over whether she should remain indefinitely on a respirator (In re Quinlan, 1976), the desires of patients, their families, and their friends to limit the application of apparently limitless medical technology have been a pressing concern for ethics, law, and public policy. Ms. Quinlan's case contained nearly all the elements of the problems we still face: vague, general, but sincere prior oral statements suggesting that she would not want continued treatment; a family attempting to do what they saw as best for her; and physicians uncertain whether to use medical judgment alone (and if so, what the "right" medical decision was), to preserve her life at all costs, or to honor the family's interpretation of their daughter's choice. Most ironically, once she was removed from her respirator, she did not die. Karen Quinlan - like dozens of other names made famous by court decisions, newspaper stories, and television evening news - has come to symbolize a tangled knot of issues surrounding the end of life and who controls it.

One: Introduction.- Two: Treatment Refusal and the Patient’s Choice: Foundations in History, Law, and Ethics.- Three: The “Future Factor”: Conceptual Foundations of Advance Directives.- Four: Advance Directives: Current Forms, Legal Fears, Moral Goals.- Five: When Choices Fail.- Six: The Forecast for Advance Directives: Indispensable or Superfluous?.- Bibliography: Books and Articles.- Bibliography: Cases and Statutes.- Appendix: Advance Directive Statutes, State-by-State Listing.

Reihe/Serie	Clinical Medical Ethics ; 2
Zusatzinfo	X, 215 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	94-010-5495-9 / 9401054959
ISBN-13	978-94-010-5495-9 / 9789401054959
Zustand	Neuware