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"[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." --The New England Journal of Medicine

"Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment . . . " --Ethics

"A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text . . . " --European Medical Journal

"Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives . . . detailed, exhaustively referenced . . . " --The Florida Bar Journal

"This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care." --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

"Cantor provides a very thorough, reliable, and readable guide . . . " --Robert M. Veatch, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives--those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.