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Deathright : culture, medicine, politics, and the right to die / James M. Hoefler, with Brian E. Kamoie.
- Title
- Deathright : culture, medicine, politics, and the right to die / James M. Hoefler, with Brian E. Kamoie.
- Author
- Hoefler, James M.
- Publication
- Boulder : Westview Press, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | R726 .H56 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kamoie, Brian E.
- Description
- xx, 291 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p.253-272) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Policy Restraint and the Denial of Death -- 2. Policy Restraint and the Cultural Context of Death -- 3. Policy Activism and Medical Technology: Emergence of the Right-to-Die Scenario -- 4. Policy Activism and Medical Professionalism: The Doctor-Patient Disconnection -- 5. Social Activism and Health-Care Consumerism -- 6. Social Activism and the Happy-Death Movement -- 7. Policy Mediation in the State Courts: Consensus on the Cutting Edge -- 8. Policy Mediation and the State Legislatures: Common Ground, Divergence, and Liberal Trends -- 9. Policy Activism, Restraint, Mediation, and the Right to Die.
- ISBN
- 0813317010
- LCCN
- 93040907
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries