Ethics at the End of Life.

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Baergen, Ralph, ed. Ethics at the End of Life. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 2000.

This volume is a collection of twenty-eight essays on medical ethics dealing with the moral issues that arise as people approach death, and is intended as a textbook for courses in medical ethics. The section headings include ethics at the end of life, refusing life-sustaining treatment, surrogate decision making, futility and fighting death, resuscitating the dying patient, assisted suicide, euthanasia, caring for seriously ill newborns, and death and managed care.

Each section begins with an...