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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Main Author: Burt, Robert A., 1939-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, ©2002.
Series:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 7.
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