To be freed from the infirmity of (the) age: Subjectivity, life-sustaining treatment, and palliative medicine

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 381-396

  Krakauer, Eric L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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