Norman L Cantor
Biographic Data
| ID | 6516437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman L Cantor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cantor |
| SIGNATURE | CANTOR N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3790-919X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On Avoiding Deep Dementia
Some people will confront Alzheimer's with a measure of resignation, a determination to struggle against the progressive debilitation and to extract whatever comforts and benefits they can from their remaining existence. They are entitled to pursue that resolute path. For other people, like myself, protracted maintenance during progressive cognitive dysfunction and helplessness is an intolerably degrading prospect. The critical question for those…
Making advance directives meaningful
Bashing advance directives is a growth industry. Some sources doubt the practicality of the entire enterprise, involving as it does the prospective shaping of preferences regarding multitudinous possibilities in inherently unknowable post-competence situations. Other sources cite the ineffectiveness of instruction directives, relying on studies indicating that advance directives have had little or no impact on end-of-life medical care. Virtually …
Making advance directives meaningful
Advance directives have been criticized as impractical and/or ineffective, but very little of the criticism differentiates among diverse types of advance directives. The thesis of this article is that carefully drawn documents can be effective. The inadequacy of the advance directive mechanism to date flows in part from documents that are too vague and uninformative. People preparing advance directives are usually seeking to define a level of int…
Department of law and ethics
Physicians, courts, and the lay public have increasingly accepted the notion that, at least in the case of terminally ill patients, various medical procedures can be withdrawn in order to ease the dying process for the waning individual. The reported cases commonly have dealt with removal of respirators, chemotherapy, or dialysis-i.e., measures indisputably classifiable as “medical” in nature. An emerging issue is whether nutrition-through intrav…
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Department of law and ethics
Physicians, courts, and the lay public have increasingly accepted the notion that, at least in the case of terminally ill patients, various medical procedures can be withdrawn in order to ease the dying process for the waning individual. The reported cases commonly have dealt with removal of respirators, chemotherapy, or dialysis-i.e., measures indisputably classifiable as “medical” in nature. An emerging issue is whether nutrition-through intrav…
Making advance directives meaningful
Bashing advance directives is a growth industry. Some sources doubt the practicality of the entire enterprise, involving as it does the prospective shaping of preferences regarding multitudinous possibilities in inherently unknowable post-competence situations. Other sources cite the ineffectiveness of instruction directives, relying on studies indicating that advance directives have had little or no impact on end-of-life medical care. Virtually …
Making advance directives meaningful
Advance directives have been criticized as impractical and/or ineffective, but very little of the criticism differentiates among diverse types of advance directives. The thesis of this article is that carefully drawn documents can be effective. The inadequacy of the advance directive mechanism to date flows in part from documents that are too vague and uninformative. People preparing advance directives are usually seeking to define a level of int…
On Avoiding Deep Dementia
Some people will confront Alzheimer's with a measure of resignation, a determination to struggle against the progressive debilitation and to extract whatever comforts and benefits they can from their remaining existence. They are entitled to pursue that resolute path. For other people, like myself, protracted maintenance during progressive cognitive dysfunction and helplessness is an intolerably degrading prospect. The critical question for those…
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Ethics in medical practice (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Directive (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)