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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buchbinder, Mara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 50.
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Scripting choice into law
  • Making death
  • Starting the conversation
  • Reconciling assistance with the physician's professional role
  • Access and the power to choose
  • Choreographing death
  • Conclusion
  • Coda
  • Appendix : about the research.

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