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The modern art of dying : a history of euthanasia in the United States /
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Lavi illustrates these changes with compelling accounts of changes at the deathbed. He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 2005. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : tables |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826773 1400826772 1282157213 9781282157217 0691133905 9780691133904 |