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In a media environment where we get more information about politicians' health than we sometimes prefer, it is hard to imagine how President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945 -- shortly after his re-election to a fourth term -- came as a sudden and unexpected shock to the nation. Drawing on the medical notes of the physician who treated Roosevelt at the time, Dr. Hugh Evans looks at the issue of Roosevelt's health from a medical ethics perspective. He also brings to the inquiry a keen eye for the political and media considerations that led to the decision to run and not to disclose the extent of Roosevelt's illness.…mehr

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In a media environment where we get more information about politicians' health than we sometimes prefer, it is hard to imagine how President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945 -- shortly after his re-election to a fourth term -- came as a sudden and unexpected shock to the nation. Drawing on the medical notes of the physician who treated Roosevelt at the time, Dr. Hugh Evans looks at the issue of Roosevelt's health from a medical ethics perspective. He also brings to the inquiry a keen eye for the political and media considerations that led to the decision to run and not to disclose the extent of Roosevelt's illness.
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Evans, Hugh E.