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The woman who decided to die : challenges and choices at the edges of medicine / Ronald Munson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Munson, Ronald, 1939- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics--Case studies.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- The woman who decided to die
- Like leaving a note
- The agents
- Unsuitable
- Nothing personal
- "He's had enough"
- Not more equal
- The last thing you can do for him
- The boy who was addicted to pain
- It seemed like a good idea.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045019-3
- 0-19-770901-X
- 1-281-98701-8
- 9786611987015
- 0-19-971614-5
- OCLC:
- 476246255
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