Taking Advance Directives Seriously - Olick, Robert S
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In the years since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case set the precedent for advance directives--those documents a person can complete to ensure that health care choices are respected--Robert S. Olick rethinks and reinvigorates the case for patient and family control. He focuses on the philosophy, as well as the legal and policy questions--championing the human duty to take advance directives seriously. Choice called this book, "essential reading for professionals and practitioners," but its message of allowing human beings to have the choice to die in dignity is one that touches us all.

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In the years since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case set the precedent for advance directives--those documents a person can complete to ensure that health care choices are respected--Robert S. Olick rethinks and reinvigorates the case for patient and family control. He focuses on the philosophy, as well as the legal and policy questions--championing the human duty to take advance directives seriously. Choice called this book, "essential reading for professionals and practitioners," but its message of allowing human beings to have the choice to die in dignity is one that touches us all.
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Robert S. Olick is associate professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University. He formerly served as executive director of the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, where he was a principal author and legislative architect of that state's advance directives law. Dr. Olick is coauthor of the book, The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine (2004).