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• Title:Last rights : rescuing the end of life from the medical system / Stephen P. Kiernan.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kiernan, Stephen.
  
• Published/Created:New York : St. Martin's Press, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB310 .K52 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Terminal care.
  Death.
  
• Description:xviii, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780312342241
  0312342241
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. imprint a body makes
  1. Last hours
  2. This is the news
  3. baby and a basketball game
  4. dog is better than a pill
  5. So much potential
  Pt. 2. Not an emergency
  6. What is a crisis?
  7. Possible paths
  8. Still alive
  9. Mysteries of life
  10. Two visions
  Pt. 3. Heal thyself
  11. Doctors' beginnings
  12. "Take five years"
  13. piece of cake
  14. "This was medicine"
  15. "Maybe I can make you laugh"
  16. Barriers to change
  Pt. 4. Medicine and love are not the same thing
  17. One experience
  18. Families as "problems"
  19. No one in charge
  20. economics of dying
  21. most important time
  Pt. 5. Smelling the roses
  22. "Her wishes were totally ignored"
  23. desire for control
  24. Dreams coming true
  25. final caress
  26. "We can celebrate"
  Pt. 6. gift of silver
  27. Lobster Newburg
  28. bowl of applesauce
  29. Illness as opportunity
  Pt. 7. lesson of the leaves
  30. endless cycle
  31. agenda for improvement
  32. Four final lessons.