Times Follows End of Life Cases

The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University

What keeps thisNew York Times piece on clinical and moral interventions at the end of life from degenerating into an "also-Schiavo" piece is that it really reads like a set of cases where bioethics conversations are both necessary and effective. Jessica Berg of Case (and our new Book Review editor along with Mark Aulision) comments.

Labels: end of life, New York Times

posted Sep 27, 2004 | link |

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