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- catalog abstract ""A Midwife through the Dying Process illustrates one physician's vision of a better way to die, focusing on partnership, commitment, and joint decision-making. Timothy Quill, M.D., explores questions faced daily by patients, families, and their physicians in confronting terminal illness and the choice between aggressive medical therapy and hospice-oriented approaches that emphasize the quality of life." "At the heart of this book are the compassionate accounts of the lives and deaths of nine very different patients cared for by Dr. Quill. Some fought death bitterly, while others found in their dying an opportunity for personal healing and fulfillment. Each patient made challenging decisions, circumscribed by medical conditions, but founded on their personal histories and values, as well as on their concepts of self, spirit, and community." "Dr. Quill concludes each patient's narrative with a discussion of the salient issues raised by the narrative for physicians, families, and society - such as hospice care, withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted death. Examining the obligation of physicians to attend to patients' deaths as much as to their lives, A Midwife through the Dying Process confronts with sensitivity and insight the contradictions inherent in medicine's dual mandate to prolong life and relieve suffering."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9658176.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""A Midwife through the Dying Process illustrates one physician's vision of a better way to die, focusing on partnership, commitment, and joint decision-making. Timothy Quill, M.D., explores questions faced daily by patients, families, and their physicians in confronting terminal illness and the choice between aggressive medical therapy and hospice-oriented approaches that emphasize the quality of life." "At the heart of this book are the compassionate accounts of the lives and deaths of nine very different patients cared for by Dr. Quill. Some fought death bitterly, while others found in their dying an opportunity for personal healing and fulfillment. Each patient made challenging decisions, circumscribed by medical conditions, but founded on their personal histories and values, as well as on their concepts of self, spirit, and community." "Dr. Quill concludes each patient's narrative with a discussion of the salient issues raised by the narrative for physicians, families, and society - such as hospice care, withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted death. Examining the obligation of physicians to attend to patients' deaths as much as to their lives, A Midwife through the Dying Process confronts with sensitivity and insight the contradictions inherent in medicine's dual mandate to prolong life and relieve suffering."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xi, 239 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Midwife through the dying process.".
- catalog identifier "0801855160 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780801869785 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Midwife through the dying process.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Midwife through the dying process.".
- catalog subject "179/.7 20".
- catalog subject "1997 A-041".
- catalog subject "Assisted suicide.".
- catalog subject "R726 .Q55 1996".
- catalog subject "Right to Die.".
- catalog subject "Right to die.".
- catalog subject "Suicide, Assisted.".
- catalog subject "Terminal Care.".
- catalog subject "Terminal care.".
- catalog subject "W 50 Q6m 1996".
- catalog title "A midwife through the dying process : stories of healing and hard choices at the end of life / Timothy E. Quill.".
- catalog type "text".