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The Physician and the Hopelessly Ill Patient: Legal, Medical and Ethical Guidelines. By the Society for the Right to Die (New York, 1985), 98 pp. (paper), $5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1986

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References

Wanzer, Sidney, et al., The Physician's Responsibility Toward Hopelessly Ill Patients, New England Journal of Medicine 310(17): 955 (April 12, 1984).Google ScholarPubMed
For a fuller discussion of many of the issues reviewed very succinctly here, see generally Robertson, John A., The Rights of the Critically Ill (Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1983; reviewed by Kapp, Marshall B. in Law, Medicine and Health Care 11[5]: 233 [October 1983]).Google Scholar