Book of Donmon Teith

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 b

For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the Unite

In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustainin

This volume gives an overview on the currently debated ethical issues regarding advance directives from an international perspective. It focuses on a wider unde

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