Hospice or Hemlock?: Searching for Heroic Compassion

by Constance E. Putnam

Book Overview

End-of-life decision making is often viewed from an academic perspective, which can obscure the debate's central human concerns. This guide introduces general readers to people with personal stakes in the right-to-die conundrum. Putnam provides practical assistance to readers and their loved ones, simultaneously incorporating the abstract and theoretical analysis essential to examining how we die in contemporary Western society. She also presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897899210
• ISBN13: 9780897899215
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"