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: 9780553379877

ISBN-10: 0553379879

ISBN-13: 9780553379877

Edition: N/A

Authors: Marilyn Webb, Timothy Quill, Joanne Lynn

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The Good Death is the first full-scale examination of one of today's most complex issues: the profound change in the way Americans think about and confront death. Drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb builds her account around intimate portraits of the dying themselves. She explains why some deaths become shockingly difficult--and needlessly painful--and how the struggles over end-of-life decisions can pit patient and family against hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, religious groups, and the law. But there is good news as well. Webb describes many extraordinary programs and individuals who are changing the face of dying. An…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
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