The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful DeathGeorgetown University Press, 12 jun 2000 - 256 páginas Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance. Callahan's thoughtful perspective notably enhances the legal and moral discussions about end-of-life issues. Originally published in 1993 by Simon and Schuster. |
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... force us to confront the problem of suffering , of the evil that sickness , pain , fear , and despair can bring into our lives . What are we to make of them ? Nothing less than the meaning of our mortality — the tension between our ...
... force us to confront the problem of suffering , of the evil that sickness , pain , fear , and despair can bring into our lives . What are we to make of them ? Nothing less than the meaning of our mortality — the tension between our ...
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... forces us to make choices , to take some charge of our medical care . Should I or should I not have the operation my doctor advises ? Should I or should I not chance taking a drug that may help me but at the price of some unpleasant ...
... forces us to make choices , to take some charge of our medical care . Should I or should I not have the operation my doctor advises ? Should I or should I not chance taking a drug that may help me but at the price of some unpleasant ...
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... force and power of modern medicine . By changing our bodies and their prospects , medicine changes the self and its expectations as well . I know that I am likely to live a longer and healthier life than my grand- parents , and when I ...
... force and power of modern medicine . By changing our bodies and their prospects , medicine changes the self and its expectations as well . I know that I am likely to live a longer and healthier life than my grand- parents , and when I ...
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... forces the dying person out of the lives of those around her , a loss both to her and to others . The source of the evil is the " savagery of nature , " a nature to be accepted but not romanticized . 13 " Familiarity with death is a ...
... forces the dying person out of the lives of those around her , a loss both to her and to others . The source of the evil is the " savagery of nature , " a nature to be accepted but not romanticized . 13 " Familiarity with death is a ...
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... euthanasia provides one piece of indirect evidence for that judgment . There is little public confidence that the critically ill will be able to withstand the force of advanced The First Illusion : Mastering Our Medical Choices 39.
... euthanasia provides one piece of indirect evidence for that judgment . There is little public confidence that the critically ill will be able to withstand the force of advanced The First Illusion : Mastering Our Medical Choices 39.
Índice
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THE LAST ILLUSION REGULATING EUTHANASIA | 91 |
LIVING WITH THE MORTAL SELF | 120 |
NATURE DEATH AND MEANING SHAPING OUR | 156 |
PURSUING A PEACEFUL DEATH | 187 |
WATCHING AND WAITING | 220 |
NOTES | 232 |
INDEX | 247 |
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Términos y frases comunes
accept death advance directives allow assisted suicide become believe biological body bring burden cancer cause of death chapter choice circumstances common condition culture cure D. J. Enright decisions deformed dignity disease doctor effort euthanasia and assisted evil fatal fate fear of death futility goal H. L. A. Hart happen harm human idea ideal illness and death increasingly individual James Rachels judgment killing kind of person less lives loss meaning medical treatment modern medicine monism nature necessary O. B. Hardison ourselves pain and suffering patient Paul Ramsey peaceful death persistent vegetative Philippe Ariès physicians possibility problem process of dying question reality reason relieve suffering response sanctity scientific medicine self-determination sense shape social society someone Stanley Hauerwas stop treatment struggle technological brinkmanship terminal treat understand William Hazlitt wrong
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Página 156 - And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Página 103 - No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.
Página 128 - We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Página 30 - Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
Página 106 - The principle of freedom cannot require that he should be free not to be free. It is not freedom to be allowed to alienate his freedom.
Página 76 - ... burden. However, the point is the same in these cases: The bare difference between killing and letting die does not, in itself, make a moral difference. If a doctor lets a patient die, for humane reasons, he is in the same moral position as if he had given the patient a lethal injection for humane reasons.
Página 107 - It is said that a competent adult person ought to have a right to euthanasia for the relief of suffering. But why must the person be suffering? Does not that stipulation already compromise the right of self-determination? How can self-determination have any limits? Why are not the person's desires or motives, whatever they be, sufficient?
Página 233 - An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing...