Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity

By Norman L. Cantor

" 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025331304X
• ISBN13: 9780253313041
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher