书目名称 | Making Sense of Advance Directives | 编辑 | Nancy M. P. King | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Clinical Medical Ethics | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The first time I read the medical consent and authorization. it had registered in my mind simply as a legal document. Now I began to understand what it meant. It was a letter of ultimate love and trust. (Schucking. 1985. p. 268) Ever since Karen Ann Quinlan slipped into permanent unconsciousness in 1975 and her father agonized publicly over whether she should remain indefinitely on a respirator (In re Quinlan, 1976), the desires of patients, their families, and their friends to limit the application of apparently limitless medical technology have been a pressing concern for ethics, law, and public policy. Ms. Quinlan‘s case contained nearly all the elements of the problems we still face: vague, general, but sincere prior oral statements suggesting that she would not want continued treatment; a family attempting to do what they saw as best for her; and physicians uncertain whether to use medical judgment alone (and if so, what the "right" medical decision was), to preserve her life at all costs, or to honor the family‘s interpretation of their daughter‘s choice. Most ironically, once she was removed from her respirator, she did not die. Karen Quinlan - like dozens of other names mad | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | concept; consciousness; ethics; foundation; history; history of literature; interpret; love; mind; morality; p | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3380-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-5495-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-3380-7Series ISSN 0926-969X | issn_series | 0926-969X | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991 |
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