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Author Schneiderman, L. J.

Title Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles / Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Terminal care -- Decision making
Advance directives (Medical care)
Patient refusal of treatment.
Right to die.
Bioethics.
Terminal Care -- ethics
Advance Directives
Bioethical Issues
Medical Futility
Right to Die -- ethics
Treatment Refusal
Right to Die
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Bioethics
Advance directives (Medical care)
Patient refusal of treatment
Right to die
Terminal care -- Decision making
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007031635
ISBN 9780199713158
0199713154
1282543628
9781282543621
9786612543623
6612543620