OBJECTIVES: This study examined the views and experiences of 20 physicians and 20
nurses at a major Canadian teaching hospital regarding the use of advance directives in …

Technical, social, and economic factors are an impetus for expressing end‐of‐life decisions
as advance directives (ADs) including a living will and durable power of attorney. Despite …

Communication between elderly people and their health care providers is becoming more
important due to the chronic nature of geriatric health problems and their impact on quality of …

Objective: To examine the opinions of patients and healthcare professionals regarding the
process of making decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Design and …

First published in 1993. This present volume, co-edited by two sociologists, Jon Hendricks of
the United States and Carolyn Rosenthal of Canada, focuses on a comparative, cross …

How are we meant to behave? And how are we to defend whatever answer we give? Morals
and Consent grounds our notion of morality in natural evolution, and from that basis …

Families have always been faced with making difficult decisions for each other regarding
matters of health. Patients who are mentally competent to make treatment decisions on their …

This series attempts to address the topic of aging from a wide variety ofperspectives and to
make available some of the best gerontological thought and writings to researchers …

The legal and ethical issues generated from changing public attitudes, law and decision-
making regarding life and death was the focus of this researach study. The primary purpose …

This thesis is an investigation of the moral responsibility of physicians in assisted death. I
begin with a discussion of the problem that drives the debate concerning end of life decision …