
Policy & Ethics
Society's End-of-Life Problem
Americans have unequal access to the benefits of advance care planning
Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America.
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