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Speaking for the dying life-and-death decisions in intensive care /

Seven in ten Americans over the age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions - literally - will therefore be made by someone else. They will decide whether we live or die; between long...

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Main Author:	Shapiro, Susan P. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Series:	Chicago series in law and society.
Physical Description:	ix, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:	Terminal care -- Decision making. Terminal care -- Decision making -- Case studies. Advance directives (Medical care) Advance directives (Medical care) -- Psychological aspects. Terminally ill -- Civil rights. Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Intensive care units.

Facing Death by Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

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