The woman who decided to die :: challenges and choices at the edges of medicine /

Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to...

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1. Verfasser: Munson, Ronald, 1939-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
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Zusammenfassung:Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to the very edges of medicine, where treatments fail and where people must cope with helplessness, mortality, and doubt. Using personal narratives that place us right next to doctors, patients, and care givers as they make decisions, Munson explores ten riveting case-based stories, told with a writer's.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiii, 190 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190).
ISBN:9780199716142
0199716145
1281987018
9781281987013
9786611987015
6611987010

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