Making Sense of Advance Directives: Revised Edition

by Nancy M.P. King

Book Overview

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 become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them. Nancy M.P. King provides a legal, philosophical, and historical analysis of the moral and legal force of advance directives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878406050
• ISBN13: 9780878406050
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher