Check your advance directive at the door: Transplantation and the obligation to live

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 65-66

  Belanger, Susan ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING WILL; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; MOTHER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RIGHT TO DIE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DECISION MAKING; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MOTHERS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RIGHT TO DIE; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77949336704     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265160903581809     Document Type: Article

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