Ethics of Withdrawal of Life-Support Systems: Case Studies in Decision Making in Intensive Care

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A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians. Journal of the American Medical Association Walton has made a successful attempt to write about medical concerns without ever leaving the layperson to flounder in confusion. Probate Law Journal In recent years the question of when to terminate life-extending medical treatments has become a thorny social issue. Douglas Walton has brought together a number of these case studies and analyzed the very difficult issues they raise.

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.,."A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians."-Journal of the American Medical Association
...A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians.-Journal of the American Medical Association
Walton has made a successful attempt to write about medical concerns without ever leaving the layperson to flounder in confusion. Ethics of Withdrawal of Life Support Systems is not meant as a treatise on the morality of withdrawing medical treatment. Instead, through careful analysis, replete with examples, Walton offers communications and discourse as the proper processes for this type of decision making. The book is an important contribution to the literatue of life-support withdrawal. It is highly recommended.-Probate Law Journal
..."A well-organized, thoughtful, and logical discussion of a difficult ethical issue frequently encountered by clinicians."-Journal of the American Medical Association
"Walton has made a successful attempt to write about medical concerns without ever leaving the layperson to flounder in confusion. Ethics of Withdrawal of Life Support Systems is not meant as a treatise on the morality of withdrawing medical treatment. Instead, through careful analysis, replete with examples, Walton offers communications and discourse as the proper processes for this type of decision making. The book is an important contribution to the literatue of life-support withdrawal. It is highly recommended."-Probate Law Journal

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DOUGLAS N. WALTON is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg and is currently a Killiam Research Fellow (1987-1989) of the Canada Council. His writings on various aspects of philosophy, pragmatics, linguistics, ethics, logic, and education have been published frequently and widely since 1971 and include numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as contributed chapters to books. He is the author of Informal Logic and Practical Reasoning and coauthored Argument: The Logic of the Fallacies. He also wrote Ethics of Withdrawal of Life Support Systems: Case Studies on Decision-Making in Intensive Care (Greenwood Press, 1983 and paperback by Praeger Publishers, 1987), Physician Patient Decision-Making (Greenwood Press, 1985) and Arguer's Position (Greenwood Press, 1985). In 1989-1990, Walton will be Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.