Scripting death : stories of assisted dying in America /

"How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buchbinder, Mara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 50.
Subjects:
Assisted suicide > Vermont > Case studies > 21st century.
Aide au suicide > Vermont > Études de cas > 21e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Assisted suicide
Vermont
2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act.
United States.
Vermont.
activists.
assisted suicide.
biomedicalization.
bureaucratic regulation.
care.
caregivers.
choice.
coercion.
control.
ethnographic research.
existential uncertainty.
healthcare.
legal.
legislators.
local policies.
medical aid in dying.
moral.
patients.
political movement.
social.
state.
terminally ill.
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