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Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
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- 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 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 219 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Facts, statistics, empathy and imagination
- 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 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
- Appendices. "Unknown girl in the maternity ward" / Ann Sexton
- "Spring and all" / William Carlos Williams
- UCSD Medical Center policy and procedures: Limitation of life-sustaining treatment
- Isbn
- 9780195339451
- 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
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- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Bioethical Issues
- Cuidado terminal -- Toma de decisiones
- Derecho a morir
- Medical Futility
- Pacientes -- Rechazo al tratamiento
- Advance Directives
- Patient refusal of treatment
- 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 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
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schneiderman, L. J
- Dewey number
- 179.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- R726.8
- LC item number
- .S3384 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2008 C-421
- WB 310
- NLM item number
- S3595e 2008
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Terminal care
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Right to die
- Terminal Care
- Right to Die
- Bioethical Issues
- Advance Directives
- Medical Futility
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Patient refusal of treatment
- Right to die
- Terminal care
- Cuidado terminal
- Pacientes
- Derecho a morir
- Label
- Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Facts, statistics, empathy and imagination -- 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 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 -- Appendices. "Unknown girl in the maternity ward" / Ann Sexton -- "Spring and all" / William Carlos Williams -- UCSD Medical Center policy and procedures: Limitation of life-sustaining treatment
- Control code
- ocn162143312
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Extent
- x, 219 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195339451
- Lccn
- 2007031635
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o162143312
- (OCoLC)162143312
- Label
- Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles, Lawrence J. Schneiderman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Facts, statistics, empathy and imagination -- 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 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 -- Appendices. "Unknown girl in the maternity ward" / Ann Sexton -- "Spring and all" / William Carlos Williams -- UCSD Medical Center policy and procedures: Limitation of life-sustaining treatment
- Control code
- ocn162143312
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Extent
- x, 219 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195339451
- Lccn
- 2007031635
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o162143312
- (OCoLC)162143312
Subject
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Advance directives (Medical care)
- Bioethical Issues
- Cuidado terminal -- Toma de decisiones
- Derecho a morir
- Medical Futility
- Pacientes -- Rechazo al tratamiento
- Advance Directives
- Patient refusal of treatment
- 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
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