Knocking on heaven's door : (Record no. 24388)
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| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
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| LC control number | 2013017659 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781451641974 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 1451641974 (hardback) |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call number | 616.02/9 |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Authors | Butler, Katy, |
| Dates | 1949- |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Knocking on heaven's door : |
| Subtitle | the path to a better way of death / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Katy Butler. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 322 p. : |
| Other Details | ill. ; |
| Size | 22 cm. |
| SUMMARY | |
| Summary | "An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggle to allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker that caused her eighty-four-year-old father's heart to outlive his brain, Katy Butler, an award-winning science writer, embarked on a quest to understand why modern medicine was depriving him of a humane, timely death. After his lingering death, Katy's mother, nearly broken by years of nonstop caregiving, defied her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and insisted on facing death the old-fashioned way: bravely, lucidly, and head on. Against this backdrop of familial love, wrenching moral choices, and redemption, Knocking on Heaven's Door celebrates the inventors of the 1950s who cobbled together lifesaving machines like the pacemaker and it exposes the tangled marriage of technology, medicine, and commerce that gave us a modern way of death: more painful, expensive, and prolonged than ever before. Caring for declining parents is a reality facing millions who may someday tell a doctor: "Let my parent go." A riveting exploration of the forgotten art of dying, Knocking on Heaven's Door empowers readers to create new rites of passage to the "Good Deaths" our ancestors so prized. Like Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death and How We Die by Sherwin Nuland, it is sure to cause controversy and open minds"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Terminal care. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Terminal care |
| General | Decision making. |
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| Topical Heading | Euthanasia |
| General | Moral and ethical aspects. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Adult children of aging parents |
| General | Family relationships. |
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| Topical Heading | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. |
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| Topical Heading | MEDICAL / General. |
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| Topical Heading | SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement. |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://uowd.box.com/s/2wheojofyz93fkccd756aqcxnxf35m7e |
| Public note | Location Map |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2014-09-04 | Kinokuniya | 616.029 BU KN | T0015989 | 2017-01-26 | 107.00 | 2017-01-26 | REGULAR |