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6 produkter
And a Time to Die
How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Häftad, 2006
253 kr
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Over the past thirty years, the way Americans experience death has been dramatically altered. The advent of medical technology capable of sustaining life without restoring health has changed where, when, and how we die. In this revelatory study, medical anthropologist Sharon R. Kaufman examines the …
Ageless Self
Sources of Meaning in Late Life
Häftad, 1994
199 kr
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Among the many studies of aging and the aged, there is comparatively little material in which the aged speak for themselves. In this compelling study, Sharon Kaufman encourages just such expression, recording and presenting the voices of a number of old Americans. Her informants tell their life …
Healer's Tale
Transforming Medicine and Culture
Häftad, 1994
182 kr
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There are many important questions raised in this book. The fragmentation of medical values, whether a good doctor requires as much knowledge of the person as of the disease, the claims created by a scientific medicine dependent upon the largesse of government grants, the conversion of medicine …
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance …
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Inbunden, 2015
1630 kr
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Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see-it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance …
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
E-bok, 2015
574 kr
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Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see—it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance …
