Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family
Author:   David John Doukas (James A. Knight Professor of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine) ,  William Reichel
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   second edition
ISBN:  

9780801886072


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   27 July 2007
Recommended Age:   From 18
Format:   Hardback
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Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family


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Author:   David John Doukas (James A. Knight Professor of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine) ,  William Reichel
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   second edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780801886072


ISBN 10:   0801886074
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   27 July 2007
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 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. The Value of Values 5. How Advance Directives Work 6. The Values History: Defining Your Health Care Values 7. You, Your Family, and Health Care Decisions: Choosing a Proxy 8. Signing Advance Directives Appendix Links to Advance Directive Forms by State Other Useful Links My Advance Directives for Future Medical Treatment The Values History Advance Directive in Brief Card Index

Reviews

A helpful book for planning ahead. - Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, reviewing the first edition


Author Information

Author Website:   http://www.med.louisville.edu/about/directory/faculty/doukas.htm

David John Doukas, M.D., is the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism, professor and chief of the Division of Medical Humanism and Ethics in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, and a member of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law at the University of Louisville. He is also the chair of the University of Louisville Health Care Ethics Committee. William Reichel, M.D., is an affiliated scholar at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

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Author Website:   http://www.med.louisville.edu/about/directory/faculty/doukas.htm

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