Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles

Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles / Lawrence J. Schneiderman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schneiderman, L. J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Terminal care > Decision making. Advance directives (Medical care) Patient refusal of treatment. Right to die.

Table of Contents:

Putting in writing what you want (and don't want)
What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing"
Facts and statistics
Empathy and the imagination
Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past?
Hoping for a miracle
What could be wrong with hope?
Medical futility
Beyond futility to an ethic of care
Future decisions we may all have to make.