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When life ends : legal overviews, medicolegal forms, and hospital policies / Arthur S. Berger ; foreword by Louis Lemberg.

Title
When life ends : legal overviews, medicolegal forms, and hospital policies / Arthur S. Berger ; foreword by Louis Lemberg.
Author
Berger, Arthur S., 1920-
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.

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Description
xiv, 188 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Advance Directives
  • Decision Making
  • Do-not-resuscitate orders
  • Hospital Administration
  • Informed Consent
  • Right to Die
  • Right to die
  • Terminal Care
  • Terminal care > Law and legislation > United States
  • Terminal care
  • Terminally ill > Hospital care
  • United States
Genre/Form
Legislation.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Louis Lemberg -- I. Legal Overviews. Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment. Living Wills. Surrogate Decision Making. Termination of Treatment. Withholding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Autonomy and the Federal Government -- II. Medicolegal Forms and Hospital Policies. Informed Consent. Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment. Refusal of Treatment by Patients With and Without Decision-Making Capacity. Living Wills. Surrogate Decision Making. Standards for Surrogate Decision Making. Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment. Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders. Patient Self-Determination Act.
ISBN
0275946207 (alk. paper)
LCCN
94043173
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries