Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles

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Label

Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles

Title remainder

hard choices in an age of medical miracles

Statement of responsibility

Lawrence J. Schneiderman

Creator

• Schneiderman, L. J

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

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