The troubled dream of life : in search of peaceful death /

"Why, despite so many reform efforts, has death remained acutely troubling in our common life? Why has modern medicine remained so ambivalent, so torn, in its stance toward death? And most important, why has it become so hard for most of us to understand the place of death in our own lives and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 1996, ©1993.
Edición:[Pbk. ed., 1996].
Temas:
Death.
Terminal care.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Terminal Care > psychology
Death
Attitude to Death
Mort.
Soins en phase terminale.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
deaths.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Can death be shaped to our own ends?
  • First illusion: mastering our medical choices
  • Stripping death bare: the recovery of nature
  • Last illusion: regulating euthanasia
  • Living with the mortal self
  • Nature, death, and meaning: shaping our end
  • Pursuing a peaceful death
  • Watching and waiting.

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