ISBN:
9780520931466
,
0520931467
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 221 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
California / Milbank books on health and the public 7
Series Statement:
California/Milbank books on health and the public 7
Parallel Title:
Print version Death is that man taking names
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Terminal care United States
;
Death Social aspects
;
United States
;
Death
;
Terminal care
;
Death Social aspects
;
Terminal care
;
Death Social aspects
;
Death
;
Jurisprudence
;
Death
;
Attitude to Death
;
Right to Die
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Death, Grief, Bereavement
;
MEDICAL ; History
;
Death
;
Death ; Social aspects
;
Terminal care
;
United States
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 suicide
Description / Table of Contents:
Pursuing the good deathHidden death -- Death at war -- Judges and death -- Doctors and death -- Choosing death -- The death penalty -- All the days of my life.
Note:
Includes index. - Notes: p. 187-218. - Description based on print version record
,
Notes: p. 187-218
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