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Living with dying: Finding Care and Compassion at the End of Life
Margaret McCartney
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Description for Living with dying: Finding Care and Compassion at the End of Life
Paperback. Our ageing population is a modern success story, and success brings problems. The new demographic is for people to die in old age, or extreme old age, but with multiple illnesses and diagnoses, and on a cocktail of medication. But where is the balance of medicine between curing and caring? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 372.
Our ageing population is a modern success story, and success brings problems. The new demographic is for people to die in old age, or extreme old age, but with multiple illnesses and diagnoses, and on a cocktail of medication. But where is the balance of medicine between curing and caring? Are we neglecting the wellbeing of the dying person in our desire to fight death at all costs?
Margaret McCartney, author of The Patient Paradox, examines the way we care for people at the end of life. She finds that medicine can harm as well as help, that loneliness and social isolation are ... Read more
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Publisher
Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780661506
SKU
V9781780661506
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Ref
99-10
About Margaret McCartney
Margaret McCartney is a GP in Glasgow, and has three children. She started writing for the press after being infuriated by an article in a newspaper which claimed that CT body screening was the way to stay well. Since then she has written for most UK newspapers, as well as the British Medical Journal (BMJ), other magazines such ... Read more
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