How we die : reflections on life's final chapter

How we die Reflections on life's final chapter

Sherwin B. Nuland

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Subjects
Death.
Published
New York : Vintage Books [2010?], c1993.
Language
English
Main Author
Sherwin B. Nuland (-)
Edition
[New ed.]
Item Description
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Includes index.
"This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones"--Cover p. [4].
Physical Description
xviii, 296 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780679742449
  • The strangled heart
  • A valentine--and how it fails
  • Three score and ten
  • Doors to death of the aged
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Murder and serenity
  • Accidents, suicide, and euthanasia
  • A story of AIDS
  • The life of a virus and the death of a man
  • The malevolence of cancer
  • Hope and the cancer patient
  • The lessons learned
  • Coda: 2010.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

The 1994 NBA nonfiction winner, Yale physician Nuland's study of the clinical, biological and emotional details of dying was a 14-week PW bestseller. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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