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The Patient Self-Determination Act : meeting the challenges in patient care / Lawrence P. Ulrich.

Title: The Patient Self-Determination Act : meeting the challenges in patient care / Lawrence P. Ulrich.
Author: Ulrich, Lawrence P.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 1999.

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Description

xii, 351 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment. Using this act as an important vehicle for improving the health care decision-making process, Lawrence P.
Ulrich explains the social, legal, and ethical background to the act by focusing on well-known cases such as those of Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan, and he explores ways in which physicians and other caregivers can help patients face the complex issues in contemporary health care practices."--BOOK JACKET. "This book provides concrete guidance to health care professionals, medical ethicits, and patient-rights advocates."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Clinical medical ethics

Uniform Title

Clinical medical ethics (Washington, D.C.)

Subjects

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ISBN

LCCN

99019307

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries