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

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Thorndike Press, 2007 - 649 pàgines
Explores the dichotomy between how patients want to live the end of their lives and the medical establishment's extreme interventions, performed at immense cost and with little regard to pain, human comfort, or the wishes of family and patients.

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INTRODUCTION
11
THE IMPRINT A BODY MAKES
33
Last Hours
35
Copyright

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Sobre l'autor (2007)

Stephen P. Kiernan is a journalist who graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has been a journalst for over twenty years and won many awards including the Brechner Center's Freedom of Information Award, The Scripps Howard Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, and a George Polk Award. He is also an auhtor of both fiction and nonfiction. His title, The Baker's Secret, made the Best Seller List.

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