Research Catalog

Title

Life and death on your own terms / L.L. Basta.

Author

Basta, L. (Lofty)

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.

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Description

364 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

A probing and critical review of the prevailing American, death-denying, technology-obsessed culture, this book is a personal testimonial from a world-renowned cardiologist who is himself a cancer survivor.

Subject

• Conduct of life
• Death
• Death
• Ethics, Clinical
• Medical ethics
• Terminal Care

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-353) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. In search of a new definition of death in an era of high technology -- 2. Setting limits : high technology interventions near the end of life -- 3. The runaway abuse of high technology -- 4. The exorcism of death : cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- 5. The sour note in the "sweet death" : physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia -- 6. The exorbitant cost of dying in America -- 7. Should age, per se, be reason to limit medical interventions? -- 8. How our dying can help the living -- 9. Controlling our mortal destiny : the birth of the living will -- 10. Does the "living will" deserve to live? -- 11. The doctor-patient relationship is in need of repair -- 12. The hard choices about end-of-life medical care -- 13. Project GRACE : a physician-public partnership for good dying -- 14. Ethical dilemmas in medical management at end-of-life : case studies.

ISBN

1573929182

LCCN

^^2001019976

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library