Embracing our mortality [electronic resource] : hard choices in an age of medical miracles / Lawrence J. Schneiderman.

By: Schneiderman, L. JContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: x, 219 pSubject(s): Terminal care -- Decision making | Advance directives (Medical care) | Patient refusal of treatment | Right to dieGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 179.7 LOC classification: R726.8 | .S3384 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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" -- 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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