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Choosing life or death : a guide for patients, families, and professionals / William J. Winslade, Judith Wilson Ross
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Edité par The Free Press - 1986
Décrit les aspects juridiques, éthiques, financiers, médicaux et émotionnels des décisions concernant les personnes gravement malades, et traite des testaments biologiques, de la dialyse rénale, des nouveau-nés handicapés, des greffes d'organes et du dépistage génétique
1. The context of choice. 2. Kidney dialysis : catastrophic illness or national catastrophe?. 3. The newly dead, the nearly dead, and the living dead : societal ambivalence toward death and dying. 4. Genetic screening and counseling : remodeling the human race. 5. The kindness of strangers : embryo transfer and surrogate mothers. 6. Treating handicapped newborns : the fate of damaged goods. 7. The tin woodsman was just the beginning : the intractable problems of organ transplantation. 8. Research and experimental therapy : bone marrow transplantation and the cruelest death. 9. A look forward : essential facts of health care financing.