Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2006-02-09
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0195156129
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
When Treatment Fails pdfDescription
Medical care of the terminally ill is one of the most emotionally fraught and controversial issues before the public today. As medicine advances and technologies develop, end-of-life care becomes more individualized and uncertain, guided less by science and more by values and beliefs. The crux of the controversy is when to withhold or withdraw curative treatments--when is enough, enough?
Political debates rage about when treatment is no longer effective; difficult cases are contested in courts; and the media devour the most sensational aspects of end-of-life care. In all this excitement and controversy, what is sadly overlooked is the extreme pressure that care of the terminally ill puts on medical staff as they deal with patients and their families and make life-or-death decisions. That pressure--the psychological strain and continuing uncertainties--is magnified when the patients are children.
David Bearison looks at this controversial issue from the perspective of the medi Download When Treatment Fails for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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