Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles

Embracing our mortality hard choices in an age of medical miracles

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...

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1. Verfasser: Schneiderman, Lawrence J. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2008
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Terminal care > Decision making > Advance directives (Medical care) > Patient refusal of treatment > Right to die > Terminal Care > ethics > Advance Directives > Bioethical Issues > Medical Futility > Right to Die > Therapieabbruch > Intensivmedizin > Medizinische Ethik > Sterbehilfe
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 219 S.
ISBN:9780195339451
978-0-19-533945-1
0195339452
0-19-533945-2