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Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture
Death Is That Man Taking Names Intersections of American Medicine Law and Culture
Author: Robert Burt, Robert A. Burt
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. This new claim rested on two seemingly irrefutable...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520232822
ISBN-10: 0520232828
Publication Date: 11/4/2002
Pages: 256
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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