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Decision Making in the Care of Terminally III Incompetent Persons: Concerns about the Role of the Courts

1984; Wiley; Volume: 32; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1532-5415.1984.tb04173.x

1532-5415

Wendy K. Mariner,

Ethics in medical practice

Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyVolume 32, Issue 10 p. 739-746 Decision Making in the Care of Terminally III Incompetent Persons: Concerns about the Role of the Courts Wendy K. Mariner JD, LLM, MPH, Corresponding Author Wendy K. Mariner JD, LLM, MPH Assistant Professor of Health Law, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115Assistant Professor of Health Law, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115Search for more papers by this author Wendy K. Mariner JD, LLM, MPH, Corresponding Author Wendy K. Mariner JD, LLM, MPH Assistant Professor of Health Law, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115Assistant Professor of Health Law, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1984.tb04173.xCitations: 11 Presented at a meeting held at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, 200 Springs Road, Bedford, Massachusetts, in September 1982. Other papers presented at this meeting appeared in the September issue. 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