To Die Well: Your Right to Comfort, Calm, and Choice in the Last Days of Life - Couverture rigide

Wanzer, Sidney; Glenmullen, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0738210838 ISBN 13 : 9780738210834

Editeur : Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2007

Synopsis

The knowledge provided in this book is both comforting and powerful. Patients who know their right to refuse treatment and the legal ways to bring about death if pain or distress cannot be alleviated will be spared the frightening helplessness that can rob their last days of meaning and connection. Drs. Wanzer and Glenmullen do not shy from controversy. They make clear what patients should expect of their doctors, including the right to enough pain control even it shortens life. They also explain the legal ways hasten death that are possible for anyone, and clarify the controversies now surrounding those that require a doctor's help. Compassion and reassurance blend with direct, honest fact in this book that every one of us should have before it is needed for ourselves or our families.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sidney Wanzer, M.D., is a nationally known authority on issues of death and dying, formerly with the Harvard University Health Services. Dr. Wanzer lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, is the author of Prozac Backlash. Dr. Glenmullen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738210838
• ISBN 13: 9780738210834
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible