Meanings and attitudes toward end-of-life preferences in Israel

Death Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 323-358

  Leichtentritt, Ronit D ^a   Rettig, Kathryn D ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; LIVING WILL; MALE; RELIGION;

AUTONOMY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ISRAEL; JEWISH ETHICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUFFERING; SURVEY; TRUST; VALUES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINOLOGY; TRUST; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0032941415     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/074811899200993     Document Type: Article

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