The Woman Who Decided to Die : Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine.

By: Munson, RonaldMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199716142Subject(s): Medical ethics -- Case studies | Physician and patient -- Moral and ethical aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Woman Who Decided to Die : Challenges and Choices at the Edges of MedicineDDC classification: 174.22 LOC classification: R724.M874 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One: The Woman Who Decided to Die -- Chapter Two: Like Leaving a Note -- Chapter Three: The Agents -- Chapter Four: Unsuitable -- Chapter Five: Nothing Personal -- Chapter Six: "He's Had Enough" -- Chapter Seven: Not More Equal -- Chapter Eight: The Last Thing You Can Do for Him -- Chapter Nine: The Boy Who Was Addicted to Pain -- Chapter Ten: It Seemed Like a Good Idea -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author.
Summary: Novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson here takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where treatments fail and where people must cope with helplessness, mortality, and doubt. Using personal narratives that place us right next to doctors, patients, and care givers as they make excruciatingly difficult decisions, Munson explores ten riveting case-based stories, told with a writer's eye for illuminating detail. Raising fundamental questions about human relationships, this is an essential book about the very nature of life and death.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One: The Woman Who Decided to Die -- Chapter Two: Like Leaving a Note -- Chapter Three: The Agents -- Chapter Four: Unsuitable -- Chapter Five: Nothing Personal -- Chapter Six: "He's Had Enough" -- Chapter Seven: Not More Equal -- Chapter Eight: The Last Thing You Can Do for Him -- Chapter Nine: The Boy Who Was Addicted to Pain -- Chapter Ten: It Seemed Like a Good Idea -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author.

Novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson here takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where treatments fail and where people must cope with helplessness, mortality, and doubt. Using personal narratives that place us right next to doctors, patients, and care givers as they make excruciatingly difficult decisions, Munson explores ten riveting case-based stories, told with a writer's eye for illuminating detail. Raising fundamental questions about human relationships, this is an essential book about the very nature of life and death.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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