The Woman Who Decided to Die Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine |
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| Author:
| Munson, Ronald |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-533101-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $68.00 |
Book Description:
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Novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson here 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 excruciatingly difficult decisions, Munson explores ten riveting case-based stories, told with a writer's eye for illuminating detail. Raising fundamental questions about human relationships, this is an...
More DescriptionNovelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson here 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 excruciatingly difficult decisions, Munson explores ten riveting case-based stories, told with a writer's eye for illuminating detail. Raising fundamental questions about human relationships, this is an essential book about the very nature of life and death.