With the end in mind : dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial / Kathryn Mannix.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316504485
- 0316504483
- 9780316504478
- 0316504475
- Dying, death and wisdom in an age of denial
- 304.64 23
- HQ1073 .M355 2018
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 304.64 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A536588B |
"January 2018"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Reading the label -- Patterns. Unpromising beginnings ; French resistance ; Tiny dancer ; Wrecking ball ; Last waltz ; Pause for thought : patterns -- My way. That is the question ; Never let me go ; Hat ; Take my breath away ; Pause for thought : my way -- Naming death. Second-hand news ; Slipping through my fingers ; Talking about the unmentionable ; The sound of silence ; Every breath you take (I'll be watching you) ; Beauty and the beast ; Pause for thought : naming death -- Looking beyond the now. In the kitchen at parties ; Please release me--A side ; Please release me--B side ; Travel plans ; With love from me to you ; Pause for thought : looking beyond the now -- Legacy. Something unpredictable ; The year of the cat ; Post-mortem ; Needles and pins ; Lullaby ; Pause for thought : legacy -- Transcendence. Musical differences ; Deep dreams ; De profundis ; Perfect day ; 'Only the good die young' ; Pause for thought : transcendence -- Last words.
A palliative care physician draws on stories from her own practice to explain how to enable a gentle and peaceful death and how modern medicine, augmented by traditional palliative approaches, can restore dignity, humanity, and meaning to the end of life.
There are no comments on this title.