If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo.

PositionBrief article - Book review

Shepherd, Lois. If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions After Terri Schiavo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Through a wide-ranging re-examination of the Schiavo case's medical, legal, and media history, the author proposes a quality of life and burden/ benefit balancing by decisionmakers, rather than an emphasis on the legal rights of the patient. She favors a presumption in favor of withdrawing tube feeding from people in a "persistent...

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