Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying (Medical Ethics Series) - Hardcover

Cantor, Norman L.

9780253332905: Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying (Medical Ethics Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253332907 ISBN 13: 9780253332905

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr, 1987

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The life-sustaining powers of modern medicine have presented a host of ethical and legal questions to be confronted by patients, families of patients, and medical personnel. Cantor charts the judicial and legislative responses to these problems and offers his own searching analysis. He identifies and endorses a growing consensus that "the important object of preserving human existence must be tempered by respect for human dignity." Patients who are mentally competent should be permitted to make decisions about their own treatment, Cantor believes; family members and doctors should be primarily responsible for determining the best interests of incompetent patients. These questions are closely argued, but the book is accessible to general readers. Highly recommended for most libraries. Jack Ray, Loyola/Notre Dame Lib., Baltimore
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