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Death interrupted : how modern medicine is complicating the way we die / Blair Bigham, MD. by Bigham, Blair, author. {Toronto, Ont.] : House of Anansi Press Inc., [2022] Subjects Terminal care.   Death.   Medicine. ISBN:  9781487008543 (paperback) : 1487008546 (paperback) Series:  Walrus. Description:  289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents:  Part I. When is dead ... dead? Policy 4.4 -- A brief history of death -- A modern day disruption -- Part II. What does it mean to die? Welcome to the grey zone -- Declaring death -- The root of the death dilemma -- Part III. Accepting death as a part of life. A good death -- Life after death -- Do we really have to die? -- Mors vincit omnia: death conquers all. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones, and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves. In Death Interrupted, Dr. Blair Bigham seeks to help readers understand the options facing them at the end of their lives. Through conversations with end-of-life professionals--including ethicists, social workers, and nurses and doctors who practise palliative care--and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms, and the ICU, Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying and answers the tough questions facing us all. Because now, for the first time in human history, we may be able to choose how our own story ends."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.175 Bi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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