Death and dying (Record no. 58863)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262542425 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 155.937 |
| Item number | PIE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Piemonte, Nicole |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Death and dying |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge, Massachusetts: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | The MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 229p. |
| Other physical details | pbk: |
| Dimensions | 18cm. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes glossary, bibliography, and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge death's existential and emotional realities.<br/>Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory toward medical interventions that may actually increase suffering at the end of life. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the medicalization of death and dying and proposes a different approach—one that acknowledges death's existential and emotional realities.<br/>The authors—one an academic who teaches and studies end-of-life care, and the other a physician trained in hospice and palliative care—offer an account of Western-style death and dying that is informed by both research and personal experience. They examine the medical profession's attitude toward death as a biological dysfunction that needs fixing; describe the hospice movement, as well as movements for palliative care and aid in dying, and why they failed to influence mainstream medicine; consider our reluctance to have end-of-life conversations; and investigate the commodification of medicine and the business of dying. To help patients die in accordance with their values, they say, those who care for the dying should focus less on delaying death by any means possible and more on being present with the dying on their journey.<br/><br/>https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542425/death-and-dying/ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Death |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Death--Psychological aspects |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Hospice care |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Death Anxiety |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Abreu, Shawn |
| Relator term | Co-author |
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| Item type | Books |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 23/05/2023 | CBS | 1318.74 | 3 | 155.937 PIE | 033060 | 30/10/2023 | 12/10/2023 | 1 | 1318.74 | Books |
