cover image Ethics on Call: How to Take Charge of Life-And-Death Choices in Today's Health Care System

Ethics on Call: How to Take Charge of Life-And-Death Choices in Today's Health Care System

David Nimmons, Nancy Dubler. Vintage Books USA, $12 (403pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74538-9

This illuminating book helps make sense of the difficult issues that arise when medical technology holds people suspended between life and death, offering readers ways to articulate their values and avoid deathbed dilemmas. (May)