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JOURNAL OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS
Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 201-214Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00589.x
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Even more so than in other areas of medicine, issues at the end of life elucidate the importance of religion and culture, as well as the role of the family and other social structures, in how these issues are framed. This article presents an overview of the variation in end-of-life treatment issues across 12 highly disparate countries. It finds that many assumptions held in the western bioethics literature are not easily transferred to other cultural settings.
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