Legislating Medical Ethics

I / The Task Force and the Law.- Executive Summary.- The New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law: A Study of Public Policy-Making.- The Legitimation and Regulation of DNR Orders.- II / The DNR Controversy in New York State.- Taking Stock of Policies for Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Perception and Practice.- Where Are We Going with Do-Not-Resuscitate Policies?.- New York State’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law.- New York’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law: Bad Law, Bad Medicine, and Bad Ethics.- Edited Transcript of Question & Answer Sessions at Union College Conference.- III / Case Studies.- Implementation of the New York Do-Not-Resuscitate Law at a Teaching Hospital.- One Family’s Experience with the New York DNR Law.- When the Ambulance Goes Home: A Tragic Flaw in the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law.- Implementation of the New York State DNR Law at a Community Hospital.- The New York DNR Law and the Disabled: The Experience of the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.- Striking a Balance.- IV / Research.- The Do-Not-Resuscitate Order as Ritual.- New York’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law: Burden or Benefit?.- Does the New York State DNR Law Prevent Medically Inappropriate DNR?.- The Effects of a Hospital Policy and State Legislation on Resuscitation Orders for Geriatric Patients.- The New York State DNR Law: Views of the Members of the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians.- The 1988 DNR Reforms: A Comparative Study of the Impact of the New York DNR Law and the Jcaho Accreditation Requirements.- Differences in Clinicians’ Reactions to the New York State DNR Law.- V / Retrospection and Reflection.- An Assessment of the Union College Study and a Response to Robert Baker’s Analysis of the DNR Law.- A Review of the EmpiricalStudies of the DNR Law and a Rejoinder to Tracy E. Miller.- Appendices The Genealogy of New York State’s Do-Not-Resuscitate Law.- Article 29 (1987) — New York State Legislature.- Guidelines for Hospitals and Physicians on “Do-Not-Resuscitate” (1982).- Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (1983, Excerpted).- Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: The Proposed Legislation and Report of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (1986, 1988, 2nd Edition Condensed).- Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders: Questions and Answers for Health Care Professionals (1988).- Letter to New York State Assembly Minority Counsel Larry Digiulio (1991).- Amendments to the New York Public Health Law 29-B (1991).- Notes on Editors and Contributors.