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J.M. Coetzee's violent, anti-apartheid Age of Iron, a novel the Wall Street Journal termed "a fierce pageant of modern South Africa," is written as a letter by a retired classics professor, Mrs. Curren, to her daughter, who lives in the United States. Mrs. Curren is dying of cancer, and her daughter advises her to come to the United States for treatment. She replies, "I can't afford to die in America. . . . No one can, except Americans."¹ Dying of cancer has been considered a "hard death" for at least a century, unproven and even quack remedies have been common, and price . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Constitutional Controversy

The Right to Life

The Dissent

Discussion

Congress

FDA Proposal

Physicians and Patients

Government and the Market

Public Policy

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From the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.

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