The maintenance of life
Subtitle: preventing social death through euthanasia talk and end-of-life care : lessons from the Netherlands
By: Frances Norwood.
Series: Ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781594605185
Subjects: Euthanasia -- Netherlands; Terminal care -- Netherlands; Medical anthropology
Description: Examines social views and practices toward death and dying in the early twenty-first century, based on a study of euthanasia practices and home death in the Netherlands with interviews with patients, families, and physicians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282) and index.