Choosing life or death
Subtitle: a guide for patients, families, and professionals
By: William J. Winslade, Judith Wilson Ross.
Contributors: Ross, Judith Wilson.
Publisher: Free Press; Collier Macmillan
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Medical ethics.; Medical care -- Decision making.; Medical personnel and patient.
Description: Describes the legal, ethical, financial, medical, and emotional aspects of decisions involving the critically ill, and discusses living wills, kidney dialysis, handicapped newborns, organ transplants, and genetic screening.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 260-262.
Includes index.