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Informationen zum Autor Lew Cohen MD, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Medicine and Health (2008), two Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency awards (2008, 2015), and a Bogliasco Fellowship for the Arts and Humanity (2014), as well as the highest honors given by the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He has been a contributor to the Atlantic, Slate, and Huffington Post and is the author of a nonfiction book, No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate Over How We Die (2010). Lew is a psychiatrist at Baystate Medical Center where he is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is an active palliative medicine researcher with over 100 academic publications relating to the integration of bioethics, nephrology, and psychiatry. Klappentext A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I.ForewordChapter 1. The Admiral and His WifeChapter 2. The Geriatric Romeo and JulietChapter 3. It's Not Like She's SufferingChapter 4. Sigmund Freud's CancerChapter 5.You Don't Want Custer Chapter 6. How Life Turned OutChapter 7. Putting the 'Mensch' in Dementia Chapter 8. You Won't Let Me Suffer?Chapter 9. My WayChapter 10. Fate Worse Than Death Chapter 11. Nothing But TorturePart IIChapter 12. Goodbye, My LoveChapter 13 .Dr. DeathChapter 14. Hemlock Chapter 15. A Well-Worn SweaterChapter 16. Bring Out Yer DeadChapter 17. The FederationChapter 18. Caring FriendsChapter 19. The Metamorphosis of Caring FriendsChapter 20. The New Dr. Death Chapter 21. The Final Two CasesPart IIIChapter 22. Four Boxes of ChocolateChapter 23. On Her Own TermsChapter 24. Golden SummerChapter 25. Don't Sugarcoat ItChapter 26. Enough is EnoughChapter 27. What She WantedChapter 28. Cowboys, Mormons, and SundancePart IVChapter 29. We Have ChoicesChapter 30. Last ThoughtsAuthor's Notes, Acknowledgments...
