Legislating Medical Ethics A Study of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
Can medical ethics be legislated? Can a complex bioethical question be definitively answered through legislation? In July 1987 the New York State legislature experimented with legislating medical ethics by amending the state's public health law to regulate `Do Not Resuscitate' orders. The...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | Philosophy and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I / The Task Force and the Law
- Executive Summary
- The New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law: A Study of Public Policy-Making
- The Legitimation and Regulation of DNR Orders
- II / The DNR Controversy in New York State
- Taking Stock of Policies for Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Perception and Practice
- Where Are We Going with Do-Not-Resuscitate Policies?
- New York State’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
- New York’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law: Bad Law, Bad Medicine, and Bad Ethics
- Edited Transcript of Question & Answer Sessions at Union College Conference
- III / Case Studies
- Implementation of the New York Do-Not-Resuscitate Law at a Teaching Hospital
- One Family’s Experience with the New York DNR Law
- When the Ambulance Goes Home: A Tragic Flaw in the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
- Implementation of the New York State DNR Law at a Community Hospital
- The New York DNR Law and the Disabled: The Experience of the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
- Striking a Balance
- IV / Research
- The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order as Ritual
- New York’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law: Burden or Benefit?
- Does the New York State DNR Law Prevent Medically Inappropriate DNR?
- The Effects of a Hospital Policy and State Legislation on Resuscitation Orders for Geriatric Patients
- The New York State DNR Law: Views of the Members of the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians
- The 1988 DNR Reforms: A Comparative Study of the Impact of the New York DNR Law and the Jcaho Accreditation Requirements
- Differences in Clinicians’ Reactions to the New York State DNR Law
- V / Retrospection and Reflection
- An Assessment of the Union College Study and a Response to Robert Baker’s Analysis of the DNR Law
- A Review of the EmpiricalStudies of the DNR Law and a Rejoinder to Tracy E. Miller
- Appendices The Genealogy of New York State’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
- Article 29 (1987) — New York State Legislature
- Guidelines for Hospitals and Physicians on “Do-Not-Resuscitate” (1982)
- Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (1983, Excerpted)
- Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: The Proposed Legislation and Report of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (1986, 1988, 2nd Edition Condensed)
- Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Questions and Answers for Health Care Professionals (1988)
- Letter to New York State Assembly Minority Counsel Larry Digiulio (1991)
- Amendments to the New York Public Health Law 29-B (1991)
- Notes on Editors and Contributors