The Way We Die Now

Author: Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Category: Sociology: Death & Dying
Book Format: Hardcover

An Irish physician explores the ways in which society has lost the ability to deal with death.

We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O'Mahoney's thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.

About Seamus O'Mahony
Dr Seamus O'Mahony is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital. He is associate editor for medical humanities of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review of Books.

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SKU BK-9781784974268
Barcode # 9781784974268
Brand Head of Zeus
Artist / Author Seamus O'Mahony
Shipping Weight 0.3800kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.030m
Shipping Length 0.220m
Assembled Length 22.100m
Assembled Height 14.100m
Assembled Width 3.000m
Type Hardcover

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