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Is God Still at the Bedside? by Abigail Rian Evans offers an interdisciplinary Christian perspective on the complex web of issues surrounding death and dying. Evans here combines first-person stories and interviews with research gathered from the medical, theological, legal, ethical, and pastoral disciplines. - Publisher.
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More and more Americans are looking for opportunities to exert some measure of control over where and how they die. In this program, Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions, including how to pay for care, what constitutes humane treatment, and how to balance...
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In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of The Plague, the classic novel by French philosopher Albert Camus, skyrocketed. At the same time, the virus's toll surged exponentially. Amid the harrowing loss, many sensed a glimmer of possibility--the potential for radical empathy wrought by shared experience--even as the death-dealing divisions of class, race, gender, and citizenship were underscored like...
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En 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross identificó cinco etapas de la muerte en su libro On Death and Dying. Ahora Kessler introduce una sexta etapa crítica: encontrar un significado que pueda transformar el dolor en una experiencia más pacífica y esperanzadora. Aunque su viaje con el dolor comenzó cuando era niño, su vida se vio trastocada por la repentina muerte de su hijo de veintiún años. Aquí comparte los conocimientos, la sabiduría colectiva...
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In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying; including those personally close to her. Each conversation uncovers a different perspective and experience of death, while at the same time exploring its universalities. As well as offering an extremely sensitive and wise insight into our final moments, Brown offers...
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America's health care system was built on the principle that life should be prolonged whenever possible, regardless of the costs. This commitment has often meant that patients spend their last days suffering from heroic interventions that extend their life by only weeks or months. Increasingly, this approach to end-of-life care is coming under scrutiny, from a moral as well as a financial perspective. Sociologist Roi Livne documents the rise and effectiveness...
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(Producer) In homes, hospitals, and courtrooms, the process of dying in America is being fiercely contested. Through the experiences of three hypothetical patients, you'll examine difficult issues including physician-assisted suicide, final treatment options, and advance directives. Then draw on the insights of doctors, nurses, ethicists, and spiritual advisors to reach your own conclusions about the cultural, medical, and personal decisions we must...
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"Anatomy museums contain some of the most compelling and challenging displays of the human body. This innovative book focusing on one such museum--in Scotland's northeast-- opens up a wide-ranging history of deceased bodies on display, from medieval relics, to nineteenth-century mega-collections of human remains. to the controversial Body Worlds exhibition that is touring the globe. A surprisingly varied and ever-changing material and visual culture...
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