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 suicide
eBook, English, ©2002
University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, Berkeley, New York, ©2002
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages)
9780520931466, 9781282357600, 9780520243248, 9780520232822, 9786612357602, 9781597345750, 0520931467, 1282357603, 0520243242, 0520232828, 6612357606, 159734575X
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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
Includes index
Notes: p. 187-218
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