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The good death : the new American search to reshape the end of life / Marilyn Webb.
Van Pelt Library HQ1073.5.U6 W43 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, Marilyn, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects--United States.
- Death.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Bereavement.
- Hospice care.
- Pain--Treatment.
- Death--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States.
- Death--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Death--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Pain--Treatment--United States.
- Pain.
- Hospice care--United States.
- Bereavement--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 479 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, 1997.
- Summary:
- Although modern technology has lengthened our lives and altered how many of us may face death, it has also created painful legal, moral, and spiritual dilemmas. Noted journalist Marilyn Webb addresses these new realities in this riveting, disturbing, yet surprisingly hopeful and inspiring book.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-472) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0553095552
- OCLC:
- 37179780
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