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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burt, Robert A., 1939-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2002.
Colección:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pursuing the good death
  • Hidden death
  • Death at war
  • Judges and death
  • Doctors and death
  • Choosing death
  • The death penalty
  • All the days of my life.