Medicine and Care of the Dying: A Modern History

by Milton J. Lewis

There is a growing conflict in medicine between the research imperative, with its implicit goal of overcoming death itself, and the re-emergent clinical imperative to treat death as a part of life, and to make the process of dying as tolerable as possible. Central to this conflict is the rise of scientific medicine and the decline of religious and associated moral discourses. Many of the Anglo Saxon countries are also marked by a moral and religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195175484
• ISBN13: 9780195175486
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"