How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner)

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 15 ian. 1995 - 320 pagini

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition addresses contemporary issues in end-of-life care and includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. How We Die also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones.


"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs… There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page." —San Francisco Examiner

 

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Cuprins

A Valentineand How It Fails
20
Three Score and Ten
43
Doors to Death of the Aged
64
Alzheimefs Disease
89
Murder and Serenity
118
Accidents Suicide and Euthanasia
140
A Story of AIDS
163
The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man
180
The Malevolence of Cancer
202
Hope and the Cancer Patient
222
The Lessons Learned
242
Epilogue
263
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Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Sherwin B Nuland
Vizualizare fragmente - 1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
Sherwin B. Nuland
Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 1995
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Sherwin B Nuland
Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 1994

Termeni și expresii frecvente

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Despre autor (1995)

SHERWIN B. NULAND, MD, was Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University until his retirement in 2009, though he continues to teach Biomedical Ethics and Medical History to Yale undergraduates, and serve the university in various capacities.  He won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Book Critics Circle Award when this book was initially published.  In hardcover and paperback, How We Die was on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of thirty-four weeks, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages.  Dr. Nuland and his family live in Connecticut.

Informații bibliografice

TitluHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner)
AutorSherwin B. Nuland
Edițieretipărită
EditorKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995
ISBN0679742441, 9780679742449
Lungime320 pagini
  
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