RTS-337A Biomedical Ethics (LoPresti): LIfe & Death

Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman captures medical decision-making in action at the end of life, a time when the physician's and patient's choices are the most difficult--and the most heart--wrenching-to make.Here readers will find vivid case studies drawn from a fifty-year career that illuminate the challenging medical decisions many of us have to make when we are seriously--and possibly even terminally--ill.

Provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death.

No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland and Atul Gawande, and takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself.

"Dying in America" evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families.