Making Sense of Advance Directives

2nd edition. King NMP. 286 pages. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ Pr; 1996. $19.95. ISBN 0878406050. Order phone 410-516-6995.

Field of medicine: Ethics.

Format: Softcover book.

Audience: As are all of the books in this series on clinical medical ethics, this text is intended for clinicians and laypersons who wish to write advance directives, members of ethics committees, bioethicists, and hospital policymakers.

Purpose: It is often difficult to make sense of …