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Cultural issues in end-of-life decision making /

Questions that face dying individuals, their families, and the professionals that help them at the end of their lives are explored in this volume. The contributors help the reader to come to terms with issues of mortality complicated by the diversity of cultures within society.

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Braun, Kathryn L.; Pietsch, James H.; Blanchette, Patricia L.
Published: Sage Publications,
Publisher Address: Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Publication Dates: [2000]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Terminal care > United States > Cross-cultural studies.
Minorities > Medical care > United States.
Right to die.
Cultural pluralism.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Attitude to Death > ethnology
Advance Directives > ethnology
Cultural Diversity.
Ethics, Medical.
Religion and Medicine.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Soins en phase terminale > Études transculturelles.
Minorités > Soins médicaux > États-Unis.
Soins en phase terminale > États-Unis > Études transculturelles.
Droit à la mort.
Diversité culturelle.
Éthique médicale.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Death > Social aspects.
Minorities > Medical care.
Terminal Care.
Sterbebegleitung
Aufsatzsammlung.
Medizinische Ethik.
Tod.
Sterven.
Terminale patiënten.
Euthanasie.
Dood.
Besluitvorming.
United States > ethnology
United States.
Cross-cultural studies.
Summary: Questions that face dying individuals, their families, and the professionals that help them at the end of their lives are explored in this volume. The contributors help the reader to come to terms with issues of mortality complicated by the diversity of cultures within society.
Carrier Form: xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9780761912170
0761912169
9780761912163
0761912177
Index Number: HQ1073
CLC: C913.9
B845.9
Call Number: B845.9/C968

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