Arthur S. Berger

When Life Ends (eBook, PDF)

Legal Overviews, Medicolegal Forms, and Hospital Policies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

None of the literature in the field of terminal care provides a full treatment of the laws, documents, and policies relating to the difficult issues arising at the end of life. When Life Ends was written to fill this gap by an attorney who serves on the bioethics committee of a large public hospital. It is an invaluable resource and practical tool for physicians, nurses, medical staffs, legal professionals, hospital administrators, and hospital bioethics committees because it provides: 1) in-depth legal commentaries on the refusal of life-sustaining treatment, advance directives, surrogate decision making, and the Patient Self-Determination Act; 2) more than 70 medical and legal documents to be used in connection with end of life decisions; and 3) hospital policies and procedures to suggest guidelines to hospital bioethics committees as they carry out their functions of developing policies and procedures to address end of life legal and ethical issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313389542
• Artikelnr.: 37835796

Autorenporträt

ARTHUR S. BERGER is the director of the International Institute for the Study of Death and an active member of the bioethics committee of a large metropolitan hospital. He is an attorney, educator, the author of six books, including Fear of the Unknown (Praeger, 1995), Dying and Death in Law and Medicine (Praeger, 1992), and the editor of three books including To Die or Not to Die? (Praeger, 1990), and Perspectives on Death and Dying (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Louis Lemberg Preface Introduction Legal Overviews Refusal of
Life-Sustaining Treatment Living Wills Surrogate Decision Making
Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment Do Not Resuscitate
Order Patient Self-Determination Act Medicolegal Forms and Hospital
Policies Informed Consent Refusal of Treatment by Patients Living Wills
Surrogate Decision Making Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining
Treatment Do Not Resuscitate Orders Patient Self-Determination Act Table of
Cases Legal Citations References Index