Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care: United States, Germany, and Japan - Hardcover

Sass, Hans-Martin

 
9780801858314: Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care: United States, Germany, and Japan

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Presents three perspectives each from the US, Japan, and Germany on the role and the validity of advance medical directives. Contributors, comprising clinicians, legal experts, and bioethicists, review the respective debate in the author's country, providing different and often contrasting accounts of the role that advance care documents and the role of patient autonomy play in the clinical settings of each country. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Hans-Martin Sass is professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. Robert M. Veatch is professor of medical ethics and the director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Rihito Kimura is professor of bioethics and law at Georgetown University.

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