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01-07-2012 | Editorial

Religion and end-of-life decisions in critical care: where the word meets deed

Author: Dee W. Ford

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2012

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“In his thoughts and his attributes, mankind at large is controlled by inherited beliefs and impulses, which countless thousands of years have ingrained like instinct.…in days of illness many millions…still seek their gods rather than the physicians.”

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Title: Religion and end-of-life decisions in critical care: where the word meets deed
Author: Dee W. Ford
Publication date: 01-07-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2012
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-012-2557-5

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