"A careful compendium of references to significant papers in the field. It fills a vacuum and represents one careful scholar's odyssey through the medical-ethical literature seeking understanding and resolution of problems associated with medical care and dying. Comprehensive and carefully annotated, it should serve well those concerned with technological encroachments on the process of dying, that genetically inbred inevitably of all who are human."^RóFrom the foreword by Joseph R. Stanton, M.D., FACPóValue of Life Committee.