Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

by Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno

Book Overview

An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but regularly withheld the truth from their patients, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno explore an unprecedented revolution in health care and explain the problem...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087140446X
• ISBN13: 9780871404466
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"