Death in the Clinic

Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1

(16)

Lynn A. Jansen

Part I: The Public Meaning of Death

1 Some Reflections on Whether Death Is Bad

17

(10)

David J. Mayo

2 Defining Death

27

(22)

James L. Bernat

Part II: Facing Death in the Clinic

3 Against the Right to Die

49

(17)

J. David Velleman

4 The Skull at the Banquet

66

(15)

David Barnard

5 Influence of Mental Illness on Decision Making at the End of Life

81

(16)

Linda Ganzini and Elizabeth R. Goy

6 Creative Adaptation in Aging and Dying: Ethical Imperative or Impossible Dream?

97

(21)

Celia Berdes and Linda Emanuel

7 Rage, Rage against the Dying of the Light: Not a Metaphor for End-of-Life Care

118

(17)

John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber, and Robert Fogerty

Part III: After Death: Respect and Cultural Norms

8 Training on Newly Deceased Patients: An Ethical Analysis

135

(20)

Mark R. Wicclair

Appendix: Abstracts of the Chapters

155

(4)

Index

159

(4)

About the Contributors

163

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