Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical SystemThorndike 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. |
Continguts
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
THE IMPRINT A BODY MAKES | 33 |
Last Hours | 35 |
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