By No Extraordinary Means, Expanded Edition: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water

Joanne Lynn

Indiana University Press, Aug 22, 1989 - Medical - 314 pages

" . . . compelling. . . . This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency. . . . [W]e should face up to these issues now. By No Extraordinary Means will serve as an impetus and guide." —New York Times Book Review

"This fine new book . . . thoughtfully written . . . well edited and cohesively integrated . . . will be valuable for physicians, nurses, nutritionists, attorneys, members of the clergy, policy makers, and members of the general public." —New England Journal of Medicine

Bibliographic information

• Title: By No Extraordinary Means, Expanded Edition: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water; Medical Ethics; Volume 517 of Midland book
• Editor: Joanne Lynn
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0253205174, 9780253205179
• Length: 314 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Ethics; Medical / Terminal Care; Social Science / General