附註:Includes index.
Notes: p. 187-218.
Pursuing the good death -- Hidden death -- Death at war -- Judges and death -- Doctors and death -- Choosing death -- The death penalty -- All the days of my life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-218) and index.
摘要:The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die"--Initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide.
