Embracing our mortality
Embracing our mortality: medical choices in an age of miracles
Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
ISBN: 0195339452
DDC: 179.7
LCC: R726.8
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Putting in writing what you want (and don't want) -- What may happen
if you don't make it clear and convincing, and lawyers and judges
(and politicians!) get involved -- 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 probably will all have to make.
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