Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment : a report on the ethical, medical, and legal issues in treatment decisions.

Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment : a report on the ethical, medical, and legal issues in treatment decisions.

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Corporate Author: United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1983.
Subjects:
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to die > Moral and ethical aspects.
Terminal care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Newborn infants > Diseases > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Medical laws and legislation > United States.
Ethics, Medical > legislation & jurisprudence
Life Support Care > standards.
Life Support Care > legislation & jurisprudence.
Patient Participation > legislation & jurisprudence.
Decision Making > legislation & jurisprudence
Éthique médicale > États-Unis.
Droit à la mort > Droit > États-Unis.
Euthanasie > États-Unis.
Soins en phase terminale > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Publications officielles.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The setting of the report
  • The elements of good decisionmaking
  • Additional constraints on a patient's decision
  • Patients who lack decisionmaking capacity
  • Patients with permanent loss of consciousness
  • Seriously ill newborns
  • Resuscitation decisions for hospitalized patients.

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