| Description |
1 online resource (x, 118 pages) |
| Contents |
Journey into that good night / Berry L. Barta -- Stars at the break of day / Marjorie Ellen Spence -- Time to go / CE McClelland |
| Summary |
This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. The purpose of the volume is to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives and, beyond that, to facilitate discussion about the many complicated issues surrounding death and dying today. Each play is followed by critical commentary. The introduction provides lucid and succinct explanation of the human, ethical, and legal contexts for the rights of patients in the United States. The volume includes appendices providing values history and living will declarations, durable power of attorney statements, and resource information |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Death -- Drama
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Do-not-resuscitate orders -- Drama
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Right to die -- Drama
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One-act plays, American.
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American drama -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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One-act plays, American
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American drama
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Death
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Do-not-resuscitate orders
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Right to die
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| Genre/Form |
One-act plays
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Medical drama
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Drama
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One-act plays.
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Medical drama.
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Pièces en un acte.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker, 1944- editor.
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Ballard, James O., editor
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Blaisdell, Theodore, editor
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Container of (work): Barta, Berry L.
Journey into that good night
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Container of (work): Spence, Marjorie Ellen.
Stars at the break of day
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Container of (work): McClelland, C. E.
Time to go
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| ISBN |
0585126836 |
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9780585126838 |
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1512816787 |
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9781512816785 |
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