The President's Commission: Report on Deciding to Forego Life Sustaining Treatment (1986)
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Sheed and Ward
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Jack Glaser, director of ethics in the Sisters of Mercy health system, discusses the U.S. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research report Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions with physician-ethicist Howard Brody of Michigan State University. They provide an overview of the report, using the case of a 52 year old man who wants to reject CPR to illustrate various portions.
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Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Report on the Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions
Unknown author (United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1983)