Choosing Death, Shaping Death: Assumptions About Disabilities, Race, and Death

Authors

Janet L. Dolgin, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Quinnipiac Health Law Journal

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

This article considers two legal cases and the stories that developed around them. Both the cases and their stories involved issues of significance to the larger society - death and bias. Each concern has occasioned confusion and debate in its own right. When these issues are combined, confusion and debate are intensified. This Article examines the complicated interplay between bias and decisions about death and dying in the U.S. health care system. Further, it reviews intersecting claims about the importance, respectively, of autonomy and community in resolving disputes about the topics of death and dying.

Recommended Citation

Janet L. Dolgin, Choosing Death, Shaping Death: Assumptions About Disabilities, Race, and Death, 25 QUINNIPIAC HEALTH L.J. 61 (2022)
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