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Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.

Dying in the Twenty-First Century

Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well

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    224 pages

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    14 July 2017

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Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church published the Ars moriendi texts, which established prayers and practices for an art of dying. In the twenty-first century, physicians rely on procedures and protocols for…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262534598
ISBN-10:0262534592
Author:Lydia S. Dugdale
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:14 July 2017
Weight:195g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 11mm
Series:Basic Bioethics
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Critics Review

Those who work in the health professions and scholars of bioethics will want to read these excellent essays, which address cutting-edge issues around care.

Those who work in the health professions and scholars of bioethics will want to read these excellent essays, which address cutting-edge issues around care.

—Choice

The contributors are all fluent speakers of bioethics…. These authors excel at questioning the received wisdom…. Dugdale and her contributors helpfully challenge the mainstream accounts.

—Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

The solution to the medicalized death proposed by Dugdale and her co-authors is articulate and organized, yet deeply personal; the chapters include stories about real patients, moments of vulnerability, mistakes and the humanity of medicine.

—Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

About The Author

Lydia S. Dugdale

Lydia Dugdale, MD, is an internal medicine physician and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine.Lydia Dugdale, MD, is an internal medicine physician and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine.John D. Lantos is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Director of the Children’s Mercy Hospital Bioethics Center.Daniel Callahan is Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research center. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Taming the Beloved Beast- How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System.Lydia Dugdale, MD, is an internal medicine physician and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine.

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