The negotiation of death: Clinical decision making at the end of life☆
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An earlier draft of this paper, “The negotiation of death: conflicting meanings of end-of-life technologies”, was read at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 19 November 1989.