No Good Deed - A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate over How We

Informationen zum Autor Lewis M. Cohen, MD, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Bellagio Residency to complete this book. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Klappentext On a blustery night, detectives from the Massachusetts State Police knocked on Amy Gleason's door. Gleason, along with fellow nurse Kim Hoy, had helped a patient deal with pain and suffering at the end of her life. Now the patient was dead, and the two nurses were being investigated for murder. Both believed they had done the right thing, but they had no idea what it would cost them. In this captivating and powerful true story, Dr. Lewis M. Cohen uses the experiences of Gleason, Hoy, and the nursing assistant who accused them of murder to explore what happens when decisions about end-of-life care shift from the hospital to the courtroom and the church. Tracing this issue from the uproar over Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to the controversial figure of Jack Kevorkian, and to the legitimate threat of serial killer medical professionals, Cohen goes behind the scenes on both sides of this debate. He examines how advances in modern medicine have given us tremendous tools for prolonging life but have also forced us to address how we treat patients who are dying and suffering. Zusammenfassung Accomplished physician and researcher Dr. Lewis Cohen writes the untold story of two Massachusetts nurses! their struggles with end of life care! and how they were accused of murdering a patient. Captivating and powerful! No Good Deed explores what happens when decisions about end of life issues and the purpose of modern medicine move from the hospital to the courtroom to the church.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Mitchell Cohen, Lewis Mitchell M. D. Cohen
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2011
• EAN: 9780061721779
• ISBN: 978-0-06-172177-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Medicine, Ethics and moral philosophy, Palliative Medicine, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Public health and preventive medicine, Sociology: death and dying, Health systems and services, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, MEDICAL: Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Death & Dying, SCIENCE: History, MEDICAL: Public Health, MEDICAL: Ethics, PHILOSOPHY: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, MEDICAL: History, Doctor / patient relationship, MEDICAL: Terminal Care, MEDICAL: Physician & Patient (incl. Narrative Medicine)