Death is that man taking names : intersections of American medicine, law, and culture /

The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die"--Initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted s...

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Autor principal: Burt, Robert A., 1939-2015
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund ©2002.
Colecção:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 7.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnxsx