The Right to Die. Terri Schiavo
Description
Her feeding tube removed, Terri Schiavo has passed away. Medically speaking, was she in a persistent vegetative state or a locked-in state? On that question hung Terri's fate for more than a decade. Was she alive in a meaningful sense? Her husband said no; her parents said yes. This ABC News program, broadcast at the time when Terri's case was brought before the Florida legislature and Governor Jeb Bush, gives background on the acrimonious battle of life and death in which Terri was a pawn and then analyzes the medical, ethical, and legal aspects of the precedent-setting case.
Runtime
23 min
Subjects
- Social medicine (64)
- Ethics (196)
- Medical ethics (151)
- Health planning (100)
- Political sociology (90)
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Date of Publication
[2011], c2003
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Films on Demand
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