Time to go : three plays on death and dying, with commentary on end-of-life issues /
This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. The purpose of the volume is to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives and, beyond that, to facilitate discussion abo...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1995.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt19dzcwz |
| Summary: | This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. The purpose of the volume is to increase awareness and knowledge about advance directives and, beyond that, to facilitate discussion about the many complicated issues surrounding death and dying today. Each play is followed by critical commentary. The introduction provides lucid and succinct explanation of the human, ethical, and legal contexts for the rights of patients in the United States. The volume includes appendices providing values history and living will declarations, durable power of attorney statements, and resource information. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (x, 118 pages) |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0585126836 9780585126838 1512816787 9781512816785 0812215192 9780812215199 |