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The Stored Tissue Issue

Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine

By: Robert F. Weir,Robert S. Olick,Jeffrey C. Murray

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The Stored Tissue Issue

Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine

By: Robert F. Weir,Robert S. Olick,Jeffrey C. Murray

This book provides a thorough, well-balanced analysis of common research practices with banked tissues, DNA, and genetic data. Describing many examples of beneficial tissue research, the authors focus on problematic research practices, controversial cases, and federal and institutional policies that limit the informed choices of patients and research participants. They offer a series of recommendations to help overcome these problems.

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Oxford University Press

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ISBN 10

0195123689

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9780195123685

Taking Advance Directives Seriously

Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life

By: Robert S. Olick

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Taking Advance Directives Seriously

Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life

By: Robert S. Olick

In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of bioethics. Patients now legally can write advance directives to govern their treatment decisions at a time of future incapacity, yet in clinical practice their wishes often are ignored. Examining the tension between incompetent patients' prior wishes and their current best interests as well as other challenges to advance directives, Robert S. Olick offers a comprehensive argument for favoring advance instructions during the dying process. He clarifies widespread confusion about the moral and legal weight of advance directives, and he prescribes changes in law, policy, and practice that would not only ensure that directives count in the care of the dying but also would define narrow instances when directives should not be followed. Olick also presents and develops an original theory of prospective autonomy that recasts and strengthens patient and family control. While focusing largely on philosophical issues the book devotes substantial attention to legal and policy questions and includes case studies throughout. An important resource for medical ethicists, lawyers, physicians, nurses, health care professionals, and patients' rights advocates, it champions the practical, ethical, and humane duty of taking advance directives seriously where it matters most-at the bedside of dying patients.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589014170

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9781589014176

Taking Advance Directives Seriously

Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life

By: Robert S. Olick

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Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life

By: Robert S. Olick

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The Stored Tissue Issue

The Stored Tissue Issue

Taking Advance Directives Seriously

Taking Advance Directives Seriously

Taking Advance Directives Seriously

Taking Advance Directives Seriously

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