Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care. United States, Germany and Japan
End-of-life decision making for mentally incompetent adults is the subject of this scholarly but eminently accessible book. It questions the extent to which attitudes to death and incompetence are determined, on the one hand, by common human factors and the nature of dying or, on the other hand, by...
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2000
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2000, Volume: 26, Issue: 5, Pages: 414-415 |
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