Legal Myths About Terminating Life Support

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 1497-1502

  Meisel, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; COMPETENCE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT; LAW; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL RIGHTS; PHYSICALLY DISABLED; RISKS AND BENEFITS; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; LIVING WILLS; MALE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0025856870     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400080013002     Document Type: Article

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