- Choosing Medical Care in Old Age
- Muriel R. Gillick
- Muriel Gillick, a noted physician who specializes in the care of the elderly and in medical ethics, presents a panoply of stories drawn from her clinical experience and develops broad guidelines for medical decision making for the elderly. When are certain procedures too burdensome to be justified? What are unacceptable risks? Should family members serve as exclusive spokespersons for relatives who can no longer speak for themselves? Gillick's bold and personal prescription for medical care for the elderly calls for a change in the way medicine is understood and practiced as well as for changes in the institutions that serve the elderly.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Presence in the Flesh
- Katharine Young
- Disembodiment--rendering the body an object and the self bodyless--is the foundational gesture of medicine. How, then, does medical practice acknowledge the presence of the person in the objectified body? Katharine Young considers in detail the "choreography" such a maneuver requires.
- Hardcover 1997