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Nancy M.P. King, Making Sense of Advance Directives (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, rev. ed., 1996): 304 pp., ISBN 0-87840-605-0, $19.95 (cloth).

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Book Review: Making Sense of Advance Directives
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1996

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