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And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life by Sharon R. Kaufman

And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

Sharon R. Kaufman
416 pages
Scribner
Mar 2005
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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This beautifully synthesized and disquieting account of how hospital patients die melds disciplined description with acute analysis, incorporating the voices of doctors, nurses, social workers and patients in a provocative analysis of the modern American quest for "a good death." In a series of case studies, Kaufman (
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