Images of death and dying in the intensive care unit

J Med Humanit. 1996 Winter;17(4):219-36. doi: 10.1007/BF02276870.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Attitude to Death*
  • Biomedical Technology
  • Critical Illness
  • Empathy
  • Euthanasia, Passive
  • Health Personnel*
  • History
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units*
  • Life Support Care*
  • Medical Futility
  • Medicine
  • Metaphor*
  • Pain
  • Patient Care
  • Patients
  • Physician's Role*
  • Professional Competence
  • Quality of Life
  • Social Values
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Terminally Ill
  • Torture
  • Treatment Outcome
  • United States
  • Value of Life
  • Warfare
  • Western World
  • Withholding Treatment