Precedent Autonomy: Life-Sustaining Intervention and the Demented Patient

How aggressively should we pursue life-sustaining treatment of the demented patient? This question becomes increasingly important as our population ages and medical technology offers ever more life-prolongation. In Life's Dominion, Ronald Dworkin addresses the issue in the context of an Alzheim...

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Main Author: Newton, Michael J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1999
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-199
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