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Embracing Our Mortality

Hard choices in an age of medical miracles
Buch | Hardcover
232 Seiten
2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533945-1 (ISBN)
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While we would all prefer to die at home, quietly and peacefully, in fact most of us will die in a health care facility, many of us hooked up to machines and faced with tough alternatives. In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman captures medical decision-making in action at the end of life, a time when the physician's and patient's choices are the most difficult, and the most heart-wrenching to make.

Vivid case studies are drawn from Dr. Schneiderman's fifty-year career that illuminate the challenging medical decisions many of us have to make when we are seriously, and possibly even terminally, ill. The cases deal with patients ranging from newborns to the elderly. We discover how the wrong decision can actually increase our pain and suffering, while adding little time, and virtually no quality, to the end of our lives. Schneiderman discusses the latest empirical research, showing the
reader how to evaluate statistical claims and assess the probability that a particular course of treatment will significantly improve our medical condition. Moreover, he draws on authors such as Tolstoy and Chekov to emphasise the importance of empathy and imagination in making these crucial decisions.
Instead of promoting the false promises of "miracles," he urges patients, family members, and physicians to approach these difficult decisions with sensitive yet realistic outlooks, combining the latest medical technology and oldest humanistic visions. Perhaps most important, he underscores the life-enhancing value of honestly facing, and embracing, our mortality.

Written by an eminent physician and ethicist recognised for his groundbreaking work on end-of-life medical issues, Embracing Our Mortality is an essential volume for everyone who wants the best possible care at the end of their life.

Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D, is Professor Emeritus at UCSD Medical School and Visiting Scholar in the Program in Medicine and Human Values at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor at institutions in the United States and abroad and has written more than 170 medical and scientific publications, as well as a novel and award-winning plays and short stories.

INTRODUCTION: FACTS, STATISTICS, EMPATHY, AND IMAGINATION

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.3.2008
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 134 x 184 mm
Gewicht 304 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-19-533945-2 / 0195339452
ISBN-13 978-0-19-533945-1 / 9780195339451
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