Making medical decisions
Subtitle: how to make difficult medical and ethical choices for yourself and your family
By: Thomas Scully and Celia Scully.
Contributors: Scully, Celia G., 1932-
Edition: 1st Fireside ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Ethics, Medical -- Popular Works; Decision Making -- popular works
Genres: Popular Works.; popular works.
Other titles: Playing God.
Description: Covers the ethics and law involved in such issues as physician and patient relationships, terminal care, transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., in vitro fertilization, surrogate mothers, abortion, neonatal intensive care, making medical decisions for children and other adults, and medical malpractice. Includes bills of rights for medical research patients, pregnant women, institutionalized persons, and nursing home patients, and sample forms for living will and durable power of attorney, uniform anatomical gift act, donor card and consent of next of kin for removal of organs.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Playing God. c1987.

"A Fireside book."

Bibliography: p. 411-415.