TY - BOOK ID - 26318983 TI - Making sense of advance directives PY - 2007 SN - 0878406050 PB - Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press DB - UniCat KW - Medical law KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - United States KW - Do-not-resuscitate orders KW - voorafgaande wilsverklaring (voorafgaande negatieve wilsverklaring, levenstestament, euthanasieverklaring) KW - weigering van behandeling KW - Death, Right to KW - Death with dignity KW - Natural death (Right to die) KW - Advance directives (Medical care) KW - DNR orders KW - testament de vie (directive anticipée) KW - refus de traitement KW - Do-not-resuscitate orders. KW - Right to die. KW - Right to die KW - Law and legislation. KW - levenseinde (einde van het leven, levenseindebeslissing) KW - Verenigde Staten KW - #GBIB:CBMER KW - Death KW - Life and death, Power over KW - Euthanasia KW - Suicide KW - Resuscitation KW - Informed consent (Medical law) KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Law and legislation KW - fin de vie (décision de fin de vie) KW - Etats Unis KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:26318983 AB - 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. She explains the types and models of advance directives currently in use and offers guidelines for individuals seeking to write, read, and use directives to promote individuals' health care choices within the laws of their own states. King emphasizes that advance directives are not orders given by patients to their doctors; instead, they are documents that invite conversation between doctors and patients about health care decisions of great importance. The purpose of advance directives is to support patients' health care choices, and the book promotes a thoughtful use of advance directives that is best calculated to achieve that purpose, whatever form individual advance directives may take.This new edition has been updated to reflect the many changes in advance directive statutes since 1991, including expanded discussions of health care proxy statutes, the impact of the Patient Self-Determination Act and the Supreme Court's Cruzan decision. King also has extended her analysis of the implications for advance directives of managed care, resource allocation, resource scarcity, and the debate over futile treatment at the end of life. "Making Sense of Advance Directives" is a valuable handbook for patients, health care providers and administrators, patient counselors, lawyers, policymakers, and any individual interested in advance directives. ER -