Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity

Author/Contributor(s):	Cantor, Norman L
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	10/22/1993
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references. --The New England Journal of Medicine

Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment . . . --Ethics

A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text . . . --European Medical Journal

Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives . . . detailed, exhaustively referenced . . . --The Florida Bar Journal

This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care. --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

Cantor provides a very thorough, reliable, and readable guide . . . --Robert M. Veatch, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives--those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.