| How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition (National Book Award Winner) Contributor(s): Nuland, Sherwin B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679742441 ISBN-13: 9780679742449 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement - Medical |
| Dewey: 616.07 |
| LCCN: 00003955 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.6" W x 7.96" (0.51 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 78284 Reading Level: 11.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 22.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New Edition With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life care 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. Shewin Nuland's masterful How We Die is even more relevant than when it was first published. |