{"product_id":"dying-in-the-twentyfirst-century-isbn-9780262534598","title":"Dying in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cb\u003ePhysicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church published the \u003ci\u003eArs moriendi \u003c\/i\u003etexts, which established prayers and practices for an art of dying. In the twenty-first century, physicians rely on procedures and protocols for the efficient management of hospitalized patients. How can we recapture an art of dying that can facilitate our dying well? In this book, physicians, philosophers, and theologians attempt to articulate a bioethical framework for dying well in a secularized, diverse society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors discuss such topics as the acceptance of human finitude; the role of hospice and palliative medicine; spiritual preparation for death; and the relationship between community, and individual autonomy. They also consider special cases, including children, elderly patients with dementia, and death in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when doctors could do little more than accompany their patients in humble solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese chapters make the case for a robust bioethics—one that could foster both the contemplation of finitude and the cultivation of community that would be necessary for a contemporary art of dying well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJeffrey P. Bishop, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Daniel Callahan, Farr A. Curlin, Lydia S. Dugdale, Michelle Harrington, John Lantos, Stephen R. Latham, M. Therese Lysaught, Autumn Alcott Ridenour, Peter A. Selwyn, Daniel Sulmasy\u003c\/p\u003eThose who work in the health professions and scholars of bioethics will want to read these excellent essays, which address cutting-edge issues around care.—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors are all fluent speakers of bioethics.... These authors excel at questioning the received wisdom.... Dugdale and her contributors helpfully challenge the mainstream accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePerspectives in Biology and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe solution to the medicalized death proposed by Dugdale and her co-authors is articulate and organized, yet deeply personal; the chapters include stories about real patients, moments of vulnerability, mistakes and the humanity of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e—Lydia Dugdale, MD, is an internal medicine physician and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydia Dugdale, MD, is an internal medicine physician and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn D. Lantos is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Director of the Children's Mercy Hospital Bioethics Center.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Callahan is Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research center. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eTaming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLydia Dugdale, MD, is an internal medicine physician and Associate Director for the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302997086437,"sku":"NP9780262534598","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262534598.jpg?v=1730752685","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dying-in-the-twentyfirst-century-isbn-9780262534598","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}