If that ever happens to me : making life and death decisions after Terri Schiavo /

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"Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shepherd, Lois L., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Colección:Studies in social medicine.
Temas:
Schiavo, Terri, > 1963-2005.
Schiavo, Terri, > 1963-2005
Terminal care.
Right to die.
Euthanasia.
Hospice care.
Persistent vegetative state.
Euthanasia, Passive > ethics
Hospice Care
Terminal Care
Right to Die
Euthanasia
Decision Making > ethics
Enteral Nutrition > ethics
Life Support Care > ethics
Persistent Vegetative State
Withholding Treatment > legislation & jurisprudence
Soins en phase terminale.
Droit à la mort.
Euthanasie.
État végétatif chronique.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Persistent vegetative state
Hospice care
Right to die
Terminal care
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disorders of consciousness and the permanent vegetative state
  • Legal and political wrangling over Terri's life
  • In context--law and ethics
  • Terri's wishes
  • The limits of evidence
  • The implications of surrogacy
  • Qualities of life
  • Feeding
  • The preservation of life
  • Respect and care : an alternative framework.

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