Research Catalog

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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Details

Description

xiv, 188 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Terminal care
• Terminal care > Law and legislation > United States
• Terminally ill > Hospital care
• Do-not-resuscitate orders
• Right to die
• Hospice care
• Advance directives (Medical care)
• Living wills
• Decision making
• Hospitals > Administration
• Hospitals > Business management
• Informed consent (Medical law)
• Advance Directives
• Decision Making
• Right to Die
• Hospital Administration
• Informed Consent
• Terminal Care
• Hospice Care
• Euthanasia, Passive
• Patient Dropouts
• Resuscitation Orders
• Living Wills
• Advance Care Planning
• Truth Disclosure
• decision making
• Living wills
• Hospitals > Business management
• Hospitals > Administration
• Hospice care
• Decision making
• Do-not-resuscitate orders
• Right to die
• Terminal care
• Terminal care > Law and legislation
• Tötung auf Verlangen
• Recht
• Euthanasie Nationalsozialismus
• Unheilbar Kranker
• Ärztliche Behandlung
• Unheilbarkeit
• Medizinische Ethik
• Right to die > Law and legislation > United States
• Hospitals > United States > Administration
• Decision making > United States
• Informed consent (Medical law) > United States
• Euthanasie
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Legislation
• law codes.
• statutes.
• Statutes and codes
• Session laws
• Session laws.
• Statutes and codes.
• Lois et codes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-177) 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
• 9780275946203

LCCN

94043173

OCLC

• ocm31608101
• 31608101
• SCSB-2059819

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library