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Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human

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Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human - Brown, Samuel
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Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better. The ICU is a new world, one in which once-fatal diseases can be cured and medical treatments greatly enhance our chances of full recovery. But, paradoxically, these places of physical healing can exact a terrible toll, and by focusing on technology rather than humanity, they too often rob the dying of their dignity. By some accounts, the expensive medical treatments provided in ICUs also threaten to bankrupt the nation. In an ...

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Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human 2016, Oxford University Press Inc, New York

ISBN-13: 9780199392957

Hardcover