This book offers an in-depth analysis of the wide range of issues surrounding "passive euthanasia" and "allow-to-die" decisions. The author develops a comprehensive conceptual model that is highly useful for assessing and dealing with real-life situations. He presents an informative historical overview, an evaluation of the clinical settings in which treatment abatement takes place, and an insightful discussion of relevant legal aspects. The result is a clearly articulated ethical analysis that is medically realistic, philosophically sound, and legally viable.
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"Professor Weir has accomplished a prodigious feat with his book Abating Treatment with Critically Ill Patients. He skillfully interweaves medical, legal and ethical perspectives on this troubling problem. His straightforward analysis of the relevant issues is a welcome contribution to rational decisionmaking for all those involved in this extraordinarily complex area" --Frances H. Miller, J.D., Boston University
"Robert Weir's new book is excellent. Among the large number of recent books on death and dying, Abating Treatment with Critically Ill Patients stands out because it offers a comprehensive examination of the major issues, clear and incisive analyses of competing positions, careful and helpful discussions of actual cases, and cogent proposals regarding policies. I recommend it with enthusiasm." --James F. Childress, Ph.D., University of Virginia
"A very useful book. It is well written and thoughtful. It should help physicians and the public think more clearly about these difficult dilemmas." --Bernard Lo, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
"One of the finest, if not the finest, one-volume references published in recent years on this controversial subject. It is thoroughly comprehensive, covering a wide range of subjects relevant to these decisions, and highly readable. In discussing real cases, the author balances the rational with the emotional and successfully combines the principles of bioethics with the human element of these tragic cases. Robert Weir deserves much praise for this truly outstanding contribution to the field of bioethics." --Ronald E. Cranford, M.D., Hennepin County Medical Center
"Weir has done extraordinarily well in collecting, right up to date, the relevant information from several disciplines, and in interpolating his own comments. I also admire the comprehensive footnotes, the index, and other added materials. This is a book which should be of great value on most controversial issues regarding termination of treatment. I can think of no work which could more surely be of great value to the courts of this country." --Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey (Retired), Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts
"The book's coverage of historical developments, legal cases, and ethical viewpoints is extensive . . . . This is one of the best formularies available." --Annals of Internal Medicine
"This clear, well-organized book, with its extensive bibliography, provides an invaluable reference tool for anyone who works with critically ill patients, who is faced with ethical dilemmas regarding these patients, or who is simply interested in the field." --Bulletin of the Park Ridge Center
"Overall, this is an excellent reference book that would be a valuable addition to any hospital library. It would also be a valuable resource for an institutional ethics committee. . . . The book is well-written and relatively jargon-free, as compared with some recent works in biomedical ethics. . . . This book should be accessible and helpful to physicians, as well as to the public concerned with these issues." --New England Journal of Medicine
"This book is a well-reasoned, thoughtful treatise on an emotional and increasingly complex subject. It represents a major contribution to the literature, and clearly explicates the ethical, legal, and policy issues that accompany our expanding technical capacity to intervene in critical illness. . . .[The book] will help shape this debate in the 1990s and beyond. I hope it will be read, not only by academics, but also by clinicians, lawyers, lay persons, and especially, judges and policy makers as they contemplate making these excruciating life-death decisions." --Bioethics Books
"Comprehensive, clearly written, well organized, and well documented . . . . Essential reading for clinicians, bioethics teachers, ethics-committee members, and ethics consultants. . . . The book makes excellent use of detailed case examples . . . . The integration of [these] into the text gives the book a particularity and concreteness that complement the overviews and general discussions" --Medical Humanities Review
"Robert Weir's new book is excellent. Among the large number of recent books on death and dying, Abating Treatment with Critically Ill Patients stands out because it offers a comprehensive examination of the major issues, clear and incisive analyses of competing positions, careful and helpful discussions of actual cases, and cogent proposals regarding policies. I recommend it with enthusiasm." --James F. Childress, Ph.D., University of Virginia
"A very useful book. It is well written and thoughtful. It should help physicians and the public think more clearly about these difficult dilemmas." --Bernard Lo, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
"One of the finest, if not the finest, one-volume references published in recent years on this controversial subject. It is thoroughly comprehensive, covering a wide range of subjects relevant to these decisions, and highly readable. In discussing real cases, the author balances the rational with the emotional and successfully combines the principles of bioethics with the human element of these tragic cases. Robert Weir deserves much praise for this truly outstanding contribution to the field of bioethics." --Ronald E. Cranford, M.D., Hennepin County Medical Center
"Weir has done extraordinarily well in collecting, right up to date, the relevant information from several disciplines, and in interpolating his own comments. I also admire the comprehensive footnotes, the index, and other added materials. This is a book which should be of great value on most controversial issues regarding termination of treatment. I can think of no work which could more surely be of great value to the courts of this country." --Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey (Retired), Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts
"The book's coverage of historical developments, legal cases, and ethical viewpoints is extensive . . . . This is one of the best formularies available." --Annals of Internal Medicine
"This clear, well-organized book, with its extensive bibliography, provides an invaluable reference tool for anyone who works with critically ill patients, who is faced with ethical dilemmas regarding these patients, or who is simply interested in the field." --Bulletin of the Park Ridge Center
"Overall, this is an excellent reference book that would be a valuable addition to any hospital library. It would also be a valuable resource for an institutional ethics committee. . . . The book is well-written and relatively jargon-free, as compared with some recent works in biomedical ethics. . . . This book should be accessible and helpful to physicians, as well as to the public concerned with these issues." --New England Journal of Medicine
"This book is a well-reasoned, thoughtful treatise on an emotional and increasingly complex subject. It represents a major contribution to the literature, and clearly explicates the ethical, legal, and policy issues that accompany our expanding technical capacity to intervene in critical illness. . . .[The book] will help shape this debate in the 1990s and beyond. I hope it will be read, not only by academics, but also by clinicians, lawyers, lay persons, and especially, judges and policy makers as they contemplate making these excruciating life-death decisions." --Bioethics Books
"Comprehensive, clearly written, well organized, and well documented . . . . Essential reading for clinicians, bioethics teachers, ethics-committee members, and ethics consultants. . . . The book makes excellent use of detailed case examples . . . . The integration of [these] into the text gives the book a particularity and concreteness that complement the overviews and general discussions" --Medical Humanities Review
About the Author
Robert F. Weir holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is currently Director, Program in Biomedical Ethics in the College of Medicine, University of Iowa. He is also the author of Selective Nontreatment of Handicapped Newborns (Oxford University Press, 1984) and the editor of Ethical Issues in Death and Dying (1977, 1986) and Death in Literature (1980).
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