If that ever happens to me [[electronic resource] ] : making life and death decisions after Terri Schiavo / / Lois Shepherd

• Autore: Shepherd Lois L. <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 179.7
• Soggetto topico: Terminal care; Right to die; Euthanasia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri's death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called for simple answers. If That Ever Happens to Me details why these simple answers were not right for Terri Schiavo and why they are not rig
• Titolo autorizzato: If that ever happens to me
• ISBN: 1-4696-0574-0; 0-8078-8864-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777959603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in social medicine.