| Description |
xviii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Quality of Death: An Ancient Perspective on a Contemporary Issue -- 2. A Whirlwind History of Technology's Impact on Life and Death -- 3. Moral Mortality: The Ethics of Dying -- 4. Treatment or Torture? Medical Intervention at the End of Life -- 5. Do Not Resuscitate -- 6. Active Euthanasia: Is There a Sour Note in the "Sweet Death"? -- 7. The High Price of Dying -- 8. Is Medical Intervention Wasted on the Old? -- 9. How Our Dying Can Help the Living -- 10. The Birth of the Living Will: An Attempt to Direct Our Mortal Destiny -- 11. Does the "Living Will" Deserve to Live? -- 12. May the Doctor-Patient Relationship Heal Itself -- 13. A Practical Living Will: Lessons from Denmark -- 14. The Universal Living Will: An American Solution -- 15. Essays by Physicians on Living and Dying -- App. A. Hospital Policies Regarding Futile Care -- App. B. Danish Medical Brochure -- App. C. Universal Living Will |
| Notes |
Insight books |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-333) and index |
| Subject |
Right to die.
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Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Author |
Post, Carole, 1953-
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| LC no. |
96001283 |
| ISBN |
0306452707 |
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