To Save or Let Die: The Dilemma of Modern Medicine

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 172-176

  Mccormick, Richard A ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYING; FATALITY; METHODOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; THERAPY;

CHRISTIAN ETHICS; EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STANDARDS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; PROGNOSIS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0016234816     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1974.03230400034027     Document Type: Article

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