The dying patient: New Israeli legislation

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1234-1237

  Steinberg, Avraham ^a   Sprung, Charles L ^b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; HUMAN DIGNITY; ISRAEL; JEW; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; RELIGION; REVIEW; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

HUMANS; ISRAEL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33747163248     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0186-6     Document Type: Review

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