When any answer is a good answer: A Mandated-choice model for advance directives

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 417-421

  Appel, Jacob ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DRIVER LICENCE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING WILL; METHODOLOGY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PUBLIC OPINION; TERMINAL CARE; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COERCION; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LIVING WILLS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PUBLIC OPINION; TERMINAL CARE; TEXAS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953675710     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180110000253     Document Type: Article

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