Deathright: culture, medicine, politics, and the right to die

Abstract

Policy restraint and the denial of death policy restraint and the cultural context of death policy activism and medical technology - emergence of the right-to-die scenario policy activism and medical professionalism the doctor-patient disconnection social activism and health-care consumerism social activism and the happy-death movement policy mediation in the state courts - consensus on the cutting edge policy mediation and the state legislatures - common ground, divergence, and liberal trends policy activism, restraint, mediation, and the right to die.