Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity

<p>[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references. --The New England Journal of Medicine<br /><br />Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment . . . --Ethics<br /><br />A thoughtful informative and sensitive text . . . --European Medical Journal<br /><br />Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated yet quite accessible legal analysis of the subject of advance directives . . . detailed exhaustively referenced . . . --The Florida Bar Journal<br /><br />This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care. --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal<br /><br />Cantor provides a very thorough reliable and readable guide . . . --Robert M. Veatch Director Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University<br /><br />Cantor examines the medical legal and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives--those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.</p>