A cycle of terms implicit in the idea of medicine: Karen Ann Quinlan as a rhetorical icon and the transvaluation of the ethics of euthanasia

Health Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-39

  Kenny, Robert Wade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 13444291856     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327027hc1701_2     Document Type: Review

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