Good Death The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life

Name: Good Death The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
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ISBN: 9780553095555

ISBN-10: 0553095552

ISBN-13: 9780553095555

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Authors: Marilyn Webb, Joanne Lynn, Timothy Quill

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Modern medical technology has lengthened our lives and forever altered how we face our deaths--but it has also created painful dilemmas that lawyers, doctors, spiritual leaders, and, above all, patients and their families are struggling with every day. Now, in this sweeping yet intimate report on death in America, Marilyn Webb has written the one essential book we all need to understand and deal with these new realities. Drawing on more than four years of first-hand research and observation, Webb combines a journalist's objectivity with a passionate advocacy for people in pain. She has sat with dozens of dying patients--in high-tech teaching hospitals, in hospices, and in their homes.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction



A Personal Introduction



Dying Well: The Death of Judith Obodov Hardin



The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Beyond the Age of Medical Miracles



Dying Hard: The Death of Peter Ciccone



When Death Becomes a Blessing: The Problem of Pain



Tough Love: The Legacy of Karen Ann Quinlan



Who Decides? Law and Politics at the Edges of Life



Bearing the Burden: Families in Distress



Hospice: The Birth of the Modern Art of Dying



New American Sacred: The Return of Prepared Dying



Wisdom's Portraits: Midwives at Death's Door



Dr. Kevorkian's Challenge: Two Deaths in Michigan



Assisted Dying: The Search for the Least Worst Death


Conclusion: Toward a New Kind of Hope


Epilogue: The Good Death of Jack Sheedy


Notes


Index