| Description |
1 online resource (x, 222 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in social medicine
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Studies in social medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Disorders of consciousness and the permanent vegetative state -- Legal and political wrangling over Terri's life -- In context--law and ethics -- Terri's wishes -- The limits of evidence -- The implications of surrogacy -- Qualities of life -- Feeding -- The preservation of life -- Respect and care : an alternative framework. |
| Summary |
Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people?politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts?made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri's death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called for simple answers. If That Ever Happens to Me details why these simple answers were not right for Terri Schiavo and why they are not right for en. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Schiavo, Terri, 1963-2005.
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Schiavo, Terri, 1963-2005. |
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Terminal care.
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Terminal care. |
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Right to die.
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Right to die. |
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Euthanasia.
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Euthanasia. |
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Euthanasia, Passive -- ethics. |
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Withholding Treatment -- legislation & jurisprudence. |
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Persistent Vegetative State. |
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Life Support Care -- ethics. |
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Enteral Nutrition -- ethics. |
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Decision Making -- ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shepherd, Lois L., 1962- If that ever happens to me. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009 9780807832950 0807832952 (DLC) 2008045187 (OCoLC)261174622 |
| ISBN |
9780807888643 (electronic book) |
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0807888648 (electronic book) |
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9781469605746 (electronic book) |
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1469605740 (electronic book) |
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0807832952 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807832950 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807832950 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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