Accounting for personhood in palliative sedation: The Ring Theory of Personhood

Medical Humanities

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-21

  Radha Krishna, Lalit Kumar ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

AWARENESS; DRIVE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERSONHOOD; TERMINAL CARE;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INDIVIDUALITY; INSTINCT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONHOOD; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84901199366     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010368     Document Type: Article

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