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If that ever happens to me : making life and death decisions after Terri Schiavo / Lois Shepherd.
Van Pelt Library R726.8 .S4755 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shepherd, Lois L., 1962-
- Series:
- Studies in social medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schiavo, Terri, 1963-2005.
- Schiavo, Terri.
- Terminal care.
- Right to die.
- Euthanasia.
- Euthanasia, Passive--ethics.
- Decision Making--ethics.
- Enteral Nutrition--ethics.
- Life Support Care--ethics.
- Persistent Vegetative State.
- Withholding Treatment--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Medical Subjects:
- Euthanasia, Passive--ethics.
- Decision Making--ethics.
- Enteral Nutrition--ethics.
- Life Support Care--ethics.
- Persistent Vegetative State.
- Withholding Treatment--legislation & jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- x, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Disorders of consciousness and the permanent vegetative state
- Legal and political wrangling over Terri's life
- In context
- law and ethics
- Terri's wishes
- The limits of evidence
- The implications of surrogacy
- Qualities of life
- Feeding
- The preservation of life
- Respect and care : an alternative framework.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-213) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780807832950
- 0807832952
- OCLC:
- 261174622
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