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Title:

Twelve breaths a minute : end-of-life essays / edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Francine Prose.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Southern Methodist University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xviii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Terminal care.
Death.
Caregivers.
Terminally ill--Family relationships.
Palliative treatment.

Other Authors:

Gutkind, Lee.

Notes:

Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein --Introduction / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- Rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- The business of grief / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun.

Contents:

Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein --Introduction / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- The rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- Just listen while the kettle boils / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin Ergun.

Series:

Medical humanities

ISBN:

0870745719 (alk. paper)
9780870745713 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)678924361

LCCN:

2010045874

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)