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Final acts : death, dying, and the choices we make /
For those who yearn for some measure of control over death Final Acts, offers insight and hope. Writing in a style free of technical jargon, the contributors discuss documents that should be prepared (health proxy, do-not-resuscitate order, living will, power of attorney); decision-making (over medi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Notes on my dying / Ruthann Robson
- Live longer or live better? / June Bingham
- "Life which is ours to know just once" / Nancy Barnes
- Caregiving Beulah: a relentless challenge / Susan Perlstein
- E-mails to family and friends: Claude and maxilla-declining gently / Sara M. Evans
- Whose death is it, anyway? / Carol K. Oyster
- The family tree / Jean Levitan
- Elegy for an optimist / Mimi Schwartz
- Buddhist reflections on life and death: a personal memoir / Alan Pope
- Death as my colleague / Mary Jumbelic
- The transformation of death in America / Stephen P. Kiernan
- Unintended consequences: hospice, hospitals, and the not-so-good death / Kathryn Temple
- The hospital ethics committee: solving medical dilemmas / Natalie R. Hannon
- Ethical principles for end-of-life decision making / Candace Cummins Gauthier
- Life or death: who gets to choose? / Cherylynn MacGregor
- Empowering patients at the end of life: law, advocacy, policy / Kathryn L. Tucker
- Dying down under: from law reform to the peaceful pill / Philip Nitschke, Fiona Stewart
- Ageism and late-life choices / Margaret Cruikshank
- Physician-assisted suicide: why both sides are wrong / Ira Byock
- End of days / Marge Piercy.