| A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life Contributor(s): Quill, Timothy E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801869781 ISBN-13: 9780801869785 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $31.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: Quill explores the complex end-of-life issues that surround physician-assisted death. Here are the stories of nine individuals and their very different endings, common only in each person's struggle to confront issues of law and ethics and to realize a "good" death. (Philosophy) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Medical | Terminal Care - Medical | Physician & Patient |
| Dewey: 179.7 |
| LCCN: 96026475 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.8 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Approximately two-thirds of deaths in the United States involve a doctor's partnership with an individual, whether it be for the administration of pain relief or sedation or for the act of discontinuing or not beginning life-sustaining treatment. In A Midwife through the Dying Process, Timothy Quill, M.D., explores that partnership and the complex end-of-life issues that surround physician-assisted death. Here are the stories of nine individuals and their very different endings, common only in each person's struggle to confront issues of law and ethics and to realize a "good"death. |
Contributor Bio(s): Quill, Timothy E.: - Timothy E. Quill, M.D., is associate chief of medicine at The Genesee Hospital in Rochester and professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of Rochester. |