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Title Planning for uncertainty : living wills and other advance directives for you and your family / David John Doukas, William Reichel.
Author Doukas, David John.
Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  344.73 DOU    Check Shelves
 Southeast  344.73 DOU    Check Shelves
Edition 2nd ed.
Description x, 151 p. : forms ; 22 cm.
Series Johns Hopkins Press health book
Note Includes index.
Contents What the Patient Self-determination Act means to you -- When is treatment beneficial and when is it not beneficial? -- How ethical principles affect health care decisions -- The value of values -- How advance directives work -- The values history: defining your health care values -- You, your family, and health care decisions: choosing a proxy -- Signing advance directives.
Subject Right to die -- United States.
Medical care -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Power of attorney -- United States.
Patients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
United States. Patient Self-Determination Act.
Advance Directives -- United States.
Living Wills -- United States.
Right to Die -- United States -- Legislation.
Added Author Reichel, William, 1937-
ISBN 0801886074 (cloth : alk. paper) : $40.00
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