Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles / Lawrence J. Schneiderman.
Schneiderman, L. J.
2008
R726.8 .S3384 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles / Lawrence J. Schneiderman.
Author Schneiderman, L. J.
ISBN 9780195339451 (alk. paper)
0195339452 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description x, 219 p. ; 19 cm.
Call Number R726.8 .S3384 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 179.7
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Facts, statistics, empathy and imagination
1. Putting in writing what you want (and don't want)
2. What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing"
3. Facts and statistics
4. Empathy and the imagination
5. Ancient myth and modern medicine : what can we learn from the past?
6. Hoping for a miracle
7. What could be wrong with hope?
8. Medical futility
9. Beyond futility to an ethic of care
10. Future decisions we may all have to make
Appendix
"Unknown girl in the maternity ward" / Ann Sexton
"Spring and all" / William Carlos Williams
UCSD Medical Center policy & procedures : limitation of life-sustaining treatment
Index.

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