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Lawrence Schneiderman
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Lawrence Schneiderman
Lawrence J. Schneiderman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and adjunct professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has had a distinguished career in medicine and ethics.
Founding co-chair of the University of California, San Diego Medical Center Ethics Committee, he has been an invited visiting scholar and visiting professor at institutions in the United States and abroad, and is a recipient of the Pellegrino Medal in medical ethics. He is presently a visiting scholar in the Program in Medicine and Human Values at the California Pacific Medical Center.
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Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Schneiderman, Lawrence J.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$22.95
Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
As medical advances and lifestyle changes carry more and more Americans beyond the age of 80, decisions about quality of life and manner of death grow increasingly unavoidable. Schneiderman (Univ. of California at San Diego Medical Sch.) and geriatrician McCullough ("The Little Black Book of Geriatrics") remind us that the issues surrounding decline and death are not isolated, spectacular events happening to others, as in the Terri Schiavo case, but a part of all our lives. Here, they each discuss the need for advanced planning and thoughtful communication and care.
Schneiderman emphasizes the need for clear and current advance directives to balance the tendency of modern medicine, abetted by hopeful loved ones, to continue treatments to the detriment of the patient's comfort. Using many literary references (this M.D. is also a novelist, a short story writer, and a playwright) and calling on philosophy as well as science, Schneiderman argues that physicians need to work from an "ethic of care" that gives equal status to the relief of suffering and the restoration of health.
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