How we die: reflections on life's final chapter Nuland, Sherwin B.

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Nuland, Sherwin B

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Vintage Books 1994Description: xviii, 296 pISBN:

9780679742449

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DDC classification:

616.078 N8H6

Summary: A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. 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. (http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/122995/how-we-die-by-dr-sherwin-b-nuland/9780679742449/)

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Table of Contents:

I. The Strangled Heart

II. A Valentine - and How It Fails

III. Three Score and Ten

IV. Doors to Death of the Aged

V. Alzheimer's Disease

VI. Murder and Serenity

VII. Accidents, Suicide, and Euthanasia

VIII. A Story of AIDS

IX. The Life of a Virus and the Death of a Man

X. The Malevolence of Cancer

XI. Hope and the Cancer Patient

XII. The Lessons Learned

A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. 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.

(http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/122995/how-we-die-by-dr-sherwin-b-nuland/9780679742449/)

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