Choosing life or death : a guide for patients, families, and professionals / William J. Winslade, Judith Wilson Ross.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1986.Description: xvi, 268 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0029347203
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- R726 .W56 1986
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 260-262.
WAR, NEWBERY,
1. The context of choice -- 2. Kidney dialysis : catastrophic illness or national catastrophe? -- 3. The newly dead, the nearly dead, and the living dead : societal ambivalence toward death and dying -- 4. Genetic screening and counseling : remodeling the human race -- 5. The kindness of strangers : embryo transfer and surrogate mothers -- 6. Treating handicapped newborns : the fate of damaged goods -- 7. The tin woodsman was just the beginning : the intractable problems of organ transplantation -- 8. Research and experimental therapy : bone marrow transplantation and the cruelest death -- 9. A look forward : essential facts of health care financing.