On dying with personhood: Socratic death

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-111

  Van Potter, Rensselaer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; DYING; EUTHANASIA; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONG-TERM CARE; NURSING HOMES; RIGHT TO DIE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033278207     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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