Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System - Brossura

Kiernan, Stephen

 
9780312374648: Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System
Brossura
ISBN 10: 031237464X ISBN 13: 9780312374648
Casa editrice: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007

Sinossi

In Last Rights, award-winning journalist Stephen P. Kiernan shows how patients and families can regain control of the dying process, creating familial intimacy like never before.

"Gripping…A superb resource for boomers dealing with their parents' final days…as well as for health-care professionals who need to hear this story from the other side."-Kirkus Reviews

With advances in medicine, technology, and daily diet and exercise practices, Americans are living longer than ever before. We have an unprecedented opportunity for meaningful closure – free of pain, among loved ones, with our affairs in order and spiritual calm attained. Instead, most of us discover that our doctor has minimal training in providing end-of-life care, and will seek to extend life no matter how painful, expensive and futile that effort might be.

Bolstered by both scientific research and intimate portraits of people from all walks of life, Last Rights offers a hopeful, profound vision for patients, doctors, and families: a way to honor people during their greatest vulnerability, a chance for families to reconnect, an opportunity for the medical system to treat patients with ultimate respect, a time to give comfort and compassion to those we most love.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Stephen P. Kiernan is a writer and journalist for the Burlington Free Press. He is the author of The Curiosity, Last Rights and Authentic Patriotism. His numerous awards include the Gerald Loeb Award for Financial Journalism, the Associated Press Managing Editors' Freedom of Information Award, and the George Polk Award. He lives in Charlotte, Vermont.

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Editore
St. Martin's Griffin
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
031237464X
ISBN 13 
9780312374648
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
320
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780312342241: Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0312342241 ISBN 13:  9780312342241
Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2006
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