Melrose maureen (13 resultados)

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: New. Rapid advances in modern medicine and diagnostic techniques have revolutionized the way we think about death and the processes of dying. Where once death was defined as the absence of respiration or heartbeat, today patients can be kept alive for months or even years hooked up to a respirator and feeding tube. Ivan and Melrose carefully explain the various medical processes involved in death and dying. In so doing they also face the many ethical, moral and legal dilemmas that confront doctors today, as well as the decisions that may have to be taken by relatives. What, they ask, is the meaning of "life" when large areas of a person's brain have suffered irreversible damage? And what of the economic quandary when valuable hospital beds are occupied by people in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 3-4 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condición: New. pp. 232 Illus.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 232 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Series: Foresight. Physical description: xi,106p : ill ; 22cm. Notes: Bibliography: p95-98. Subjects: Life; Death; Death Pathology; Life & death. 1 Kg.

Condición: New.

Condición: New. pp. 232.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Series: Foresight. Physical description: xi,106p : ill ; 22cm. Notes: Bibliography: p95-98. Subjects: Life; Death; Death Pathology; Life & death. 1 Kg.

Condición: New. pp. 232.

Condición: New.

1st.ed. "This is a thoughtful, but not depressing, treatment of our common mortality." Pp.106. Paperback, rubbed patch from old sticker to front cover. VG.

Paperback. Condición: New. Rapid advances in modern medicine and diagnostic techniques have revolutionized the way we think about death and the processes of dying. Where once death was defined as the absence of respiration or heartbeat, today patients can be kept alive for months or even years hooked up to a respirator and feeding tube. Ivan and Melrose carefully explain the various medical processes involved in death and dying. In so doing they also face the many ethical, moral and legal dilemmas that confront doctors today, as well as the decisions that may have to be taken by relatives. What, they ask, is the meaning of "life" when large areas of a person's brain have suffered irreversible damage? And what of the economic quandary when valuable hospital beds are occupied by people in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.…