' Making Sense of Advance Directives is the best single book on this timely topic. It should be not only in the collections of academic libraries, but also in those of community and hospital libraries and in the reading rooms of ethics committees and clinical departments. ' Medical Humanities Review 6:2 1992

• One: Introduction.- Two: Treatment Refusal and the Patient’s Choice: Foundations in History, Law, and Ethics.- Three: The “Future Factor”: Conceptual Foundations of Advance Directives.- Four: Advance Directives: Current Forms, Legal Fears, Moral Goals.- Five: When Choices Fail.- Six: The Forecast for Advance Directives: Indispensable or Superfluous?.- Bibliography: Books and Articles.- Bibliography: Cases and Statutes.- Appendix: Advance Directive Statutes, State-by-State Listing.

' Making Sense of Advance Directives is the best single book on this timely topic. It should be not only in the collections of academic libraries, but also in those of community and hospital libraries and in the reading rooms of ethics committees and clinical departments. ' Medical Humanities Review 6:2 1992

• One: Introduction.- Two: Treatment Refusal and the Patient’s Choice: Foundations in History, Law, and Ethics.- Three: The “Future Factor”: Conceptual Foundations of Advance Directives.- Four: Advance Directives: Current Forms, Legal Fears, Moral Goals.- Five: When Choices Fail.- Six: The Forecast for Advance Directives: Indispensable or Superfluous?.- Bibliography: Books and Articles.- Bibliography: Cases and Statutes.- Appendix: Advance Directive Statutes, State-by-State Listing.

' Making Sense of Advance Directives is the best single book on this timely topic. It should be not only in the collections of academic libraries, but also in those of community and hospital libraries and in the reading rooms of ethics committees and clinical departments. ' Medical Humanities Review 6:2 1992

• One: Introduction.- Two: Treatment Refusal and the Patient’s Choice: Foundations in History, Law, and Ethics.- Three: The “Future Factor”: Conceptual Foundations of Advance Directives.- Four: Advance Directives: Current Forms, Legal Fears, Moral Goals.- Five: When Choices Fail.- Six: The Forecast for Advance Directives: Indispensable or Superfluous?.- Bibliography: Books and Articles.- Bibliography: Cases and Statutes.- Appendix: Advance Directive Statutes, State-by-State Listing.