""Is There a Duty to Die? poses a powerful challenge to mainstream 'patient-centered' bioethics, leading us to rethink the significance of family interests in treatment decision. Hardwig writes with clarity, wit, and elegance; these essays are truly a pleasure to read." -Chris Hackler, Director of the Divison of Medical Humanities, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 5/99 "With clarity and compassion, John Hardwig advocates a paradigm shift from a patient-centered to a family-centered bioethics. Just as families have a duty to care for those who are ill, those afflicted have a reciprocal duty not to become a crushing burden, which in some cases means a duty to die. The challenge for those who would object to this provocative idea, is to reform the health care system so as to mitigate any such duty." -Francoise Baylis, Associate Professor of Medicine and Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Canada, 5/99 "John Hardwig's precise and insightful essays intrepidly question moral orthodoxies and propose alternatives that are difficult to reject." -Helga Kuhse, author of "Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics "John Hardwig identifies some of the most difficult questions in bioethics, which others are too timid to confront, and writes about them in an admirably clear, lucid, and down-to-earth style. His Afterword, in which he elicits from a group of elderly what it means to them to die a "responsible death, is itself worth the price of the volume. Any academic bioethicist who can engage in this sort of conversation with average people, and come away with such a rich set of insights, is a person well worth listening to." -Howard Brody, Director, Center for Ethics andHumanities in the Life Sciences and author of the Healer's Power "This is an important collection of essays that nurses interested in the moral dimension of their work will find thought provoking." -"Nursing Times
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