Texas Advance Directives Act - Symposium

The August issue of the American Journal of Bioethics [15(8)] includes a target article and peer commentaries on the Texas Advance Directives Act.  



Here is an extract from the table of contents.   I am pleased to be included among these.



The Texas Advanced Directive Law: Unfinished Business

Michael Kapottos & Stuart Youngner

pages 34-38



Pining for Courts to Resolve Intractable Disputes Between Families and Physicians Is a Pipe Dream

John J. Paris & Andrew Hawkins

pages 39-40



The Texas Advance Directives Act: Must a Death Panel Be a Star Chamber?

Thaddeus Mason Pope

pages 41-43



Futility and Fairness: A Defense of the Texas Advance Directive Law

Nancy S. Jecker

pages 43-46



The Texas Advance Directives Act Is Not About Professional Integrity

Tom Tomlinson

pages 46-48



A Texas Perspective on TADA: Physician Autonomy and the Corporate Practice of Medicine Act

Craig M. Klugman & Brigid Sheridan

pages 48-49



The Unfinished Business of Developing Standards for End-of-Life Care: Leveraging Quality Improvement and Peer Review

Jeffrey T. Berger

pages 50-51



The Misleading Vividness of a Physician Requesting Futile Treatment

Colleen M. Gallagher, Jeffrey S. Farroni, Jessica A. Moore, Joseph L. Nates & Maria A. Rodriguez

pages 52-53



Professionally Responsible Clinical Ethical Judgments of Futility

Laurence B. McCullough

pages 54-56



TADA Is Still Unfair

Philip M. Rosoff

pages 56-58



Finishing the Texas Advance Directives Law

Chris Hackler

pages 58-60