Death and Dying
$31.83
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2021
Summary
Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actually increase suffering at the end of life. This volume examines the medicalization of death and dying and proposes a different approach—one that acknowledges death’s existential and emotional realiti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262542425 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262542420 |
| Author: | Nicole Piemonte, Shawn Abreu M.D. |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
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About The Author
Nicole Piemonte
Nicole M. Piemonte, PhD, is Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Creighton University School of Medicine in Phoenix. She is the author of Afflicted- How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice (MIT Press).
Shawn Abreu, MD, is a board-certified Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician at Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix.
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