Dying: rights and responsibilities
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- point of-view
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 149 (3) , 147-149
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb120542.x
Abstract
Few topics in medicine are more complicated, more controversial, and more emotionally charged than treatment of the hopelessly ill. Technology competes with compassion, legal precedent lags, and controversy is inevitableKeywords
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