Written advance directives: Theuth's blessing ... or ... curse?

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 116, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 439-441

  Loewy, Roberta Springer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance directive; Informed consent; Means and ends; Proxy decision making

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW;

EID: 4344578782     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03040933     Document Type: Review

References (5)

1. "Phaedrus." In Plato: The Collected Dialogues. Ed. by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1978), pp. 475-525.
2. Ibid. Phaedr. 274c-75b.
3. Ibid. Phaedr. 276.
4. Q.v., In the California Supreme Court ruling in the case of the Conservatorship of the Person of Robert Wendland, August 8, 2001 (26 Cal. 4th at 524); and most recently, the hastily devised law by the Florida legislature to over-ride the 15 October 2003 court order to remove the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo.
5. Loewy EH, Loewy RS (2000) The ethics of terminal care: orchestrating the end of life. Klüwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.