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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679414614
ISBN-139780679414612
eBay Product ID (ePID)1352407
Product Key Features
Publication Year1994
TopicDeath & Dying
Book TitleHow We Die : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Number of PagesXviii, 278 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-Classifiable, Social Science
AuthorSherwin B. Nuland
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight22.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-024590
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal616.07/8
SynopsisAttempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James Gleick From the Trade Paperback edition.
LC Classification NumberBD444.N85 1994
Bewertungen und Rezensionen
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- 30. Okt. 2018
thought provoking
an excellent explanation of how medicine can keep us alive well past the time when we should prepare to leave this earth.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Nov. 2019
A book everybody should read
I read this book, and loved it so, I bought 2 more; one for my sister as a gift and one for my daughter.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Sep. 2018
Brutally honest.
This is a brutally honest look at reality. Even though many strides have been made since it was written, the biology and anatomy of the processes of death are the same.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 21. Sep. 2017
Interesting but not what I needed
Full of information from his experiences but not what I needed.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
