And a Time to Die : How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

And a Time to Die : How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

Sharon Kaufman

Språken
FörlagScribner
ISBN9780743282529

A reassuring and illuminating examination on our conflicting wishes about the end of life, how the politics and routines of the American hospital have formed our understanding and experience of death, and ultimately why what we consider a "good death" is so hard to attain. In a penetrating and reve