A discourse of relationships in bioethics: Patient autonomy and end-of-life decision making among elderly Korean Americans

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-423

  Frank, Gelya ^a   Blackhall, Leslie J ^b   Michel, Vicki ^c   Murphy, Sheila T ^a   Azen, Stanley P ^a   Park, Kyeyoung ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pacific Center for Health Policy and Bioethics and Assisted Home Hospice   (United States)

^c Loyola Law School Los Angeles   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Bioethics; End of life decision making; Ethnicity; Narrative; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BIOETHICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KOREA; LIVING WILL; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BIOETHICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0032238372     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1998.12.4.403     Document Type: Article

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