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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Cambridge Univ. Press
1999
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-199 |
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