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An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities.

Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actually increase suffering at the end of life. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the medicalization of death and dying and proposes a different approach--one that acknowledges death's existential and emotional realities.
The authors--one an academic who teaches and studies end-of-life care, and the other a physician trained in hospice and palliative care--offer an account of Western-style death and dying that is informed by both research and personal experience. They examine the medical profession's at

Death and Dying The MIT Press Essential Knowledge

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    A Paperback / softback by Nicole Piemonte, Shawn Abreu M.D.

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 07/09/2021
      ISBN13: 9780262542425, 978-0262542425
      ISBN10: 262542420
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      Sociology: death and dying

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities.

      Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actually increase suffering at the end of life. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the medicalization of death and dying and proposes a different approach--one that acknowledges death's existential and emotional realities.
      The authors--one an academic who teaches and studies end-of-life care, and the other a physician trained in hospice and palliative care--offer an account of Western-style death and dying that is informed by both research and personal experience. They examine the medical profession's at

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