The Troubled Dream of Life : In Search of a Peaceful Death
Overview
"A beautiful book, richly suggestive and wise . . . . This book puts the rampant debate about our contemporary responses to suffering and death in a new light."-Commonweal"Valuable and lucid."-Chicago TribuneDrawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance. Callahan's thoughtful perspective notably enhances the legal and moral discussions about end-of-life issues.Originally published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster.The co-founder and former president of the Hastings Center, Daniel Callahan is currently the director of international programs there and author of Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society, and What Kind of Life? The Limits of Medical Progress (Georgetown University Press).
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- ISBN-13: 9780878408153
- ISBN-10: 0878408150
- Publisher: Georgetown University Press
- Publish Date: June 2000
- Dimensions: 8.45 x 5.56 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.71 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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