The Resource Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Resource Information
The item Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? Here, a leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life urges all of us, including health care professionals, to face these decisions with sensitivity and realism informed by both the latest medical evidence as well as the oldest humanistic visions. Dr. Schneiderman vividly demonstrates the wisdom of this approach by interweaving true stories of his patients, current empirical research in care at the end of life, and displays of the power of empathy and imagination as embodied in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Chekhov.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
- Contents
-
- Putting in writing what you want (and don't want)
- What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing"
- Facts and statistics
- Empathy and the imagination
- Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past?
- Hoping for a miracle
- What could be wrong with hope?
- Medical futility
- Beyond futility to an ethic of care
- Future decisions we may all have to make
- Isbn
- 9780199713158
- Label
- Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles
- Title
- Embracing our mortality
- Title remainder
- hard choices in an age of medical miracles
- Statement of responsibility
- Lawrence J. Schneiderman
- Subject
-
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Bioethical Issues
- Electronic books
- Medical Futility
- PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Advance Directives
- Right to Die -- ethics
- Right to die
- Right to die
- Terminal Care -- ethics
- Terminal care -- Decision making
- Terminal care -- Decision making
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? Here, a leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life urges all of us, including health care professionals, to face these decisions with sensitivity and realism informed by both the latest medical evidence as well as the oldest humanistic visions. Dr. Schneiderman vividly demonstrates the wisdom of this approach by interweaving true stories of his patients, current empirical research in care at the end of life, and displays of the power of empathy and imagination as embodied in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Chekhov.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schneiderman, L. J
- Dewey number
- 179.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- R726.8
- LC item number
- .S3384 2008eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2008 C-421
- WB 310
- NLM item number
- S3595e 2008
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Terminal care
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Right to die
- Terminal Care
- Advance Directives
- Bioethical Issues
- Medical Futility
- Right to Die
- PHILOSOPHY
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Right to die
- Terminal care
- Label
- Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Putting in writing what you want (and don't want) -- What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing" -- Facts and statistics -- Empathy and the imagination -- Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past? -- Hoping for a miracle -- What could be wrong with hope? -- Medical futility -- Beyond futility to an ethic of care -- Future decisions we may all have to make
- Control code
- 610965833
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780199713158
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)610965833
- Label
- Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Putting in writing what you want (and don't want) -- What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing" -- Facts and statistics -- Empathy and the imagination -- Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past? -- Hoping for a miracle -- What could be wrong with hope? -- Medical futility -- Beyond futility to an ethic of care -- Future decisions we may all have to make
- Control code
- 610965833
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780199713158
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)610965833
Subject
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Bioethical Issues
- Electronic books
- Medical Futility
- PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Advance Directives
- Right to Die -- ethics
- Right to die
- Right to die
- Terminal Care -- ethics
- Terminal care -- Decision making
- Terminal care -- Decision making
- Patient refusal of treatment
Genre
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Embracing-our-mortality--hard-choices-in-an-age/1Zur-IPfoRA/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Embracing-our-mortality--hard-choices-in-an-age/1Zur-IPfoRA/">Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Embracing-our-mortality--hard-choices-in-an-age/1Zur-IPfoRA/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Embracing-our-mortality--hard-choices-in-an-age/1Zur-IPfoRA/">Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
