Embracing our mortality hard choices in an age of medical miracles /
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| Format: | Elektronički e-knjiga |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online pristup: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- Putting in writing what you want (and don't want)
- What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing"
- Facts and statistics
- Empathy and the imagination
- Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past?
- Hoping for a miracle
- What could be wrong with hope?
- Medical futility
- Beyond futility to an ethic of care
- Future decisions we may all have to make.