TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneiderman,L.J.
TI  - Embracing our mortality: hard choices in an age of medical miracles 
SN  - 9780195339451 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - R726.8 .S3384 2008
U1  - 179.7 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Advance directives (Medical care)
KW  - Patient refusal of treatment
KW  - Right to die
KW  - Terminal Care
KW  - ethics
KW  - Advance Directives
KW  - Bioethical Issues
KW  - Medical Futility
KW  - Right to Die
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Putting in writing what you want (and don't want) -- What may happen if you don't make it "clear and convincing" -- Facts and statistics -- Empathy and the imagination -- Ancient myth and modern medicine: what can we learn from the past? -- Hoping for a miracle -- What could be wrong with hope? -- Medical futility -- Beyond futility to an ethic of care -- Future decisions we may all have to make
ER  -