Values underlying end-of-life decisions: A qualitative approach

Health and Social Work

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 150-159

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

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

End of life decisions; Israel; Values

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ISRAEL; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL VALUES; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0035430323     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/26.3.150     Document Type: Article

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