Planning for uncertainty : living wills and other advance directives for you and your family /
No one wants to plan for death or incapacitating illness. But, as the emotional legal battle in the Terri Schiavo case made all too clear, people of all ages need to make and communicate clear decisions about the final details of their lives while they are healthy and have time to fully consider the...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007
Baltimore, Md. : 2007 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed |
| Series: | Johns Hopkins Press health book
A Johns Hopkins Press health book Johns Hopkins Press health book |
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Table of Contents:
- What the Patient Self-determination Act means to you
- When is therapy beneficial? when is it futile?
- How ethical principles affect health care decisions
- The value of values
- The living will and the durable power of attorney for health care
- The values history: defining your health care values
- You, your family, and health care decisions
- Signing advance directives
- What the Patient Self-determination Act means to you
- When is treatment beneficial and when is it not beneficial?
- How ethical principles affect health care decisions
- The value of values
- How advance directives work
- The values history : defining your health care values
- You, your family, and health care decisions : choosing a proxy
- Signing advance directives
- What the Patient Self-determination Act means to you
- When is treatment beneficial and when is it not beneficial?
- How ethical principles affect health care decisions
- The value of values
- How advance directives work
- The values history: defining your health care values
- You, your family, and health care decisions: choosing a proxy
- Signing advance directives
- note: Introduction : what every person needs to know
- 1 What the Patient Self-Determination Act means to you
- 2. When is treatment beneficial and when is it not beneficial?
- 3. How ethical principles affect health care decisions
- 4. value of values
- 5. How advance directives work
- 6. values history : defining your health care values
- 7. You, your family, and health care decisions : choosing a proxy.