Through the valley of shadows :

Brown, Samuel Morris,

Through the valley of shadows : living wills, intensive care, and making medicine human / Samuel Morris Brown. - xii, 272 pages ; 22 cm

Includes index.

A culture in crisis -- The rise of the living will -- Empirical and ethical problems with living wills -- Living wills don't make decisions : human beings do -- The barbaric life of the ICU -- Life after the ICU -- Reform : the current state of the art -- Healing the intensive care unit.

9780199392957 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015032315


Living Wills--ethics.
Attitude to Death.
Intensive Care--psychology.
Patient Participation.
Right to Die--ethics.

R726.8 / .B77 2016

179.7

W 85.5