The Sanctity of Social Life Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients
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Reexamines the nature of death and dying as seen from the physician's point of view. Unlike other treatments of the subject, this study is concerned not with what physician's should do for the critically ill, but with their actual behavior. Based on extensive interviews with physicians in several medical specialties, more than 3000 questionnaires completed by physicians in four specialties, and studies of the records of actual hospital patients, the book shows that while withdrawal of treatment in certain types of cases is widespread, euthanasia is rare.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780871542090 |
Publisher: | Russell Sage Foundation |
Imprint: | Russell Sage Foundation |
Pub date: | 10 Sep 1975 |
DEWEY: | 174.24 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 285 |
Weight: | 640g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |