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Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)
Death Is That Man Taking Names Intersections of American Medicine Law and Culture - California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
Author: 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: 9780520243248
ISBN-10: 0520243242
Publication Date: 9/6/2004
Pages: 221
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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