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• Title:Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles / Lawrence J. Schneiderman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Schneiderman, L. J.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB310 .S3595 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Terminal care--Decision making.
  Advance directives (Medical care)
  Patient refusal of treatment.
  Right to die.
  
• Medical Subjects: Terminal Care--ethics.
  Advance Directives.
  Bioethical Issues.
  Medical Futility.
  Right to Die--ethics.
  
• Description:x, 219 p. ; 19 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195339451 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0195339452 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Facts, Statistics, Empathy and Imagination
  1. Putting in Writing What You Want (and Don't Want)
  2. What May Happen If You Don't Make It "Clear and Convincing"
  3. Facts and Statistics
  4. Empathy and Imagination
  5. Ancient Myth and Modern Medicine: What Can We Learn From the Past?
  6. Hoping for a Miracle
  7. What Could Be Wrong with Hope?
  8. Medical Futility
  9. Beyond Futility to an Ethic of Clare
  10. Future Decisions We May All Have to Make
  "Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward" - Ann Sexton
  "Spring and All" - William Carlos Williams
  UCSD Medical Center Policy & Procedures: Limitation of Life-Sustaining Treatment.