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03369aam a2200493 i 4500 001 61B572CC3CC311EE8B657E6F2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230817010032 008 220119t20222022onc 000 0 eng 010 $a 2021385141 020 $a 1487008546 020 $a 9781487008543 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CLE $d CDX $d UAB $d LNT $d YDX $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a R726.8 $b .B4987 2022 082 04 $a 362.17/5 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Bigham, Blair, $e author. 245 10 $a Death interrupted : $b how modern medicine is complicating the way we die / $c Blair Bigham, MD. 264 1 $a [Toronto, ON] : $b Anansi, $c [2022] 300 $a 289 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 0 $a The Walrus books 505 0 $a Part I. When is dead ... dead? Policy 4.4 -- A brief history of death -- A modern day disruption -- Part II. What does it mean to die? Welcome to the grey zone -- Declaring death -- The root of the death dilemma -- Part III. Accepting death as a part of life. A good death -- Life after death -- Do we really have to die? -- Mors vincit omnia: death conquers all. 520 $a "In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era. Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive. In this new era, most organs can be kept from dying almost indefinitely by machines. But this unprecedented shift in end-of-life care has created a major crisis. In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones, and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves. In Death Interrupted, Dr. Blair Bigham seeks to help readers understand the options facing them at the end of their lives. Through conversations with end-of-life professionals--including ethicists, social workers, and nurses and doctors who practise palliative care--and observations from his own time working in ambulances, emergency rooms, and the ICU, Bigham exposes the tensions inherent in this new era of dying and answers the tough questions facing us all. Because now, for the first time in human history, we may be able to choose how our own story ends."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Terminal care. 650 0 $a Death. 650 0 $a Medicine. 650 12 $a Terminal Care $0 (DNLM)D013727 650 2 $a Death 650 2 $a Medicine 650 6 $a Soins en phase terminale. 650 6 $a Mort. 650 6 $a MeÌdecine. 650 7 $a deaths. $2 aat 650 7 $a medicines (material) $2 aat 650 7 $a Death. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888613 650 7 $a Medicine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01014893 650 7 $a Terminal care. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01147835 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bigham, Blair. $t Death interrupted. $d Toronto : The Walrus Books, 2022 $z 9781487008550 $z 9781487008550 $w (OCoLC)1305505935 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20230817010253.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61B572CC3CC311EE8B657E6F2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search