Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System - Tapa blanda

Kiernan, Stephen

 
9780312374648: Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System
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ISBN 10: 031237464X ISBN 13: 9780312374648
Editorial: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

Sinopsis

In the 1970s, most people died swiftly and brutally: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. In "Last Rights", Stephen P. Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the end of life - pain free, functioning mentally and physically, surrounded by family and friends - and how the medical system continues to trial the dying - with extreme interventions, at immense costs, and with little regard to pain, human comforts, of even the stated wishes of patients and families.Backed with surveys, interviews, and intimate portraits of people from all walks of life, this book will be for our time what Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's books were for a previous generation.

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Acerca del autor

Stephen P Kiernan is a writer and journalist for the Burlington Free Press. His numerous awards include the Gerald Loeb Award for Financial Journalism, the Associated Press Managing Editors Freedom of Information Award, and the George Polk Award. He lives in Charlotte, Vermont.

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Editorial
St. Martin's Griffin
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
031237464X
ISBN 13 
9780312374648
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
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9780312342241: Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System

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ISBN 10:  0312342241 ISBN 13:  9780312342241
Editorial: St Martins Pr, 2006
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