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1Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510, USA.
Abstract:
The care of dying patients as a problem in the United States cannot be well understood apart from understanding the way in which American culture has responded to the problem of death. This country seems unusual among developed countries in its passion to conquer death, often acting as if death were simply one more disease to be overcome. American medicine has been influenced by this background culture, while adding some idiosyncratic features of its own. A powerful attraction to technology, a fear of malpractice litigation, and a fundamental ambivalence about the response physicians should have to death help to explain why the care of dying patients has been so difficult, so controversial, and so troubling to both the medical and the lay communities.
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