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. . . And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
By Sharon R. Kaufman. 400 pp. New York, Scribner, 2005. $28. ISBN 0-7432-6476-2.

Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice
Edited by Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin. 342 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8018-8069-6 (cloth); 0-8018-8070-X (paper).

After decades of study, our collective fascination with the care of dying patients shows no sign of receding. The dying patient remains the nexus of a complex interaction of medical and nursing care, ethics, law, and economics, and important questions still lack clear consensus. Should we legalize physician-assisted suicide? What is the appropriate medical care for a critically ill patient who may die but who also may live with aggressive treatment? How should physicians integrate patients' vague advance directives into clinical care? To what . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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