TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneiderman,L.J.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Embracing our mortality: hard choices in an age of medical miracles 
AV  - R726.8 .S3384 2008eb
U1  - 179.7 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Advance directives (Medical care)
KW  - Patient refusal of treatment
KW  - Right to die
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10375170
ER  -