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Rethinking the withholding/withdrawing distinction: the cultural construction of “life-support” and the framing of end-of-life decisions
This paper is a theoretical and empirically informed examination of the naturalist distinction between withholding and withdrawing life-support. Drawing on the history of mechanical ventilation and on a recent Israeli law containing a novel approach to disconnecting life-support at the end of life,...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25949813 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40248-015-0004-5 |