What would Terri want? On the psychological challenges of surrogate decision making

Death Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-148

  Ditto, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGAL GUARDIANS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RIGHT TO DIE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30744454246     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180500455624     Document Type: Review

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