A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life

ISBN-13: 9780801869785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str.

Timothy E. Quill

Opis

Approximately two-thirds of deaths in the United States involve a doctor's partnership with an individual, whether it be for the administration of pain relief or sedation or for the act of discontinuing or not beginning life-sustaining treatment. In A Midwife through the Dying Process, Timothy Quill, M.D., explores that partnership and the complex end-of-life issues that surround physician-assisted death. Here are the stories of nine individuals and their very different endings, common only in each person's struggle to confront issues of law and ethics and to realize a -good-death.