Samuel Morris Brown
Through the Valley of Shadows
Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human
Samuel Morris Brown
Through the Valley of Shadows
Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human
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In place of living wills, which have fundamentally misunderstood the problems people face during life-threatening illness, researcher and practicing ICU physician Samuel Morris Brown advocates a system of individualized guidance alongside fundamental reform.
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In place of living wills, which have fundamentally misunderstood the problems people face during life-threatening illness, researcher and practicing ICU physician Samuel Morris Brown advocates a system of individualized guidance alongside fundamental reform.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780199392957
- ISBN-10: 0199392951
- Artikelnr.: 47869138
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780199392957
- ISBN-10: 0199392951
- Artikelnr.: 47869138
Samuel M. Brown is Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Utah School of Medicine and founder and director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center. A practicing intensive care physician, researcher and award-winning historian of ideas, Dr. Brown writes at the intersections of medicine, ethics, and culture.
* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* SECTION ONE: PAST
* Chapter 1. A Culture in Crisis
* Historical Death Culture and the Dying of Death
* Life Support and the Miracles of Resuscitation
* The Rise of Intensive Care and "Life Support "
* Life in the 1960s
* Chapter 2. The Rise of the Living Will
* The Findings of the Court
* Legislation
* Disclosurism and a Focus on Procedures
* Improving enforcement
* Futility, Financial Disaster, and Obligations to Society
* Expanding horizons
* Chapter 3: Empirical and Ethical Problems with Living Wills
* Conceptual Problems with Living Wills
* Pig Iron under Water: Living Wills Don't Apply in Real Life
* Paradoxical Threats to Autonomy
* "If I'm ever like that, let me die ": Disability Stigma
* The Limits of Prediction Make Living Wills Difficult to Use
* Problems of race
* Living Wills Can Backfire
* Empirical evidence that Living Wills Don't Work
* SECTION TWO: PRESENT
* Chapter 4. Living Wills Don't Make Decisions; Human Beings Do
* Thinking like a Human Being
* What your Brain Doesn't Know Might Kill You
* Affective forecasting and psychological adaptation
* Things that Go Bump in the Night
* Moral Distress
* Moral Hazards
* Choosing to See
* Chapter 5. The Barbaric Life of the ICU
* Barbarism and Brutality
* The Experience of the Ventilator
* Immobilization
* Tubes and more tubes
* The Brain under Siege
* Terrible Communication
* We Don't Always Know What We Want
* Deforming Death in the Rush to Rescue
* Chapter 6. Life after the ICU
* A Few Visionary Researchers
* The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
* Bodies
* Muscles
* Lungs
* Brains
* Psyches
* Is It All Worth It?
* The Tension between Outcomes Research and Advance Directives
* SECTION THREE: FUTURE
* Chapter 7. Reform: The Current State of the Art
* Eliciting Values and Wishes
* Registration Drives for Advance Directives in Wisconsin
* Multimedia Persuasion
* Tailoring Advance Care Planning
* Decision Aids
* Choice Architecture
* The Science of Communication
* The Conversation Project
* Redesigning the ICU
* Chapter 8. Healing the Intensive Care Unit
* Let Families In
* Fixing Code Status
* Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
* Wrapping Up
* Recognize the Crossroads
* Create a Support Community
* Create Space for Facilitated Farewells
* Change the Framing to Manage Clinicians' Moral Distress
* Changing Culture outside Medicine
* Not Left Unsaid
* Authentic Personalization
* A Possible Map: Five Approaches to the ICU
* Approach 1: Do Everything
* Approach 2: Be Aggressive Only if I Have a Reasonable Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 3: Only Admit Me to the ICU if I Have an Excellent Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 4: Don't Admit Me to the ICU
* Approach 5: Don't Admit Me to a Hospital; Focus Only on My Comfort
* Epilogue. What Should We Do in the Meanwhile?
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* SECTION ONE: PAST
* Chapter 1. A Culture in Crisis
* Historical Death Culture and the Dying of Death
* Life Support and the Miracles of Resuscitation
* The Rise of Intensive Care and "Life Support "
* Life in the 1960s
* Chapter 2. The Rise of the Living Will
* The Findings of the Court
* Legislation
* Disclosurism and a Focus on Procedures
* Improving enforcement
* Futility, Financial Disaster, and Obligations to Society
* Expanding horizons
* Chapter 3: Empirical and Ethical Problems with Living Wills
* Conceptual Problems with Living Wills
* Pig Iron under Water: Living Wills Don't Apply in Real Life
* Paradoxical Threats to Autonomy
* "If I'm ever like that, let me die ": Disability Stigma
* The Limits of Prediction Make Living Wills Difficult to Use
* Problems of race
* Living Wills Can Backfire
* Empirical evidence that Living Wills Don't Work
* SECTION TWO: PRESENT
* Chapter 4. Living Wills Don't Make Decisions; Human Beings Do
* Thinking like a Human Being
* What your Brain Doesn't Know Might Kill You
* Affective forecasting and psychological adaptation
* Things that Go Bump in the Night
* Moral Distress
* Moral Hazards
* Choosing to See
* Chapter 5. The Barbaric Life of the ICU
* Barbarism and Brutality
* The Experience of the Ventilator
* Immobilization
* Tubes and more tubes
* The Brain under Siege
* Terrible Communication
* We Don't Always Know What We Want
* Deforming Death in the Rush to Rescue
* Chapter 6. Life after the ICU
* A Few Visionary Researchers
* The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
* Bodies
* Muscles
* Lungs
* Brains
* Psyches
* Is It All Worth It?
* The Tension between Outcomes Research and Advance Directives
* SECTION THREE: FUTURE
* Chapter 7. Reform: The Current State of the Art
* Eliciting Values and Wishes
* Registration Drives for Advance Directives in Wisconsin
* Multimedia Persuasion
* Tailoring Advance Care Planning
* Decision Aids
* Choice Architecture
* The Science of Communication
* The Conversation Project
* Redesigning the ICU
* Chapter 8. Healing the Intensive Care Unit
* Let Families In
* Fixing Code Status
* Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
* Wrapping Up
* Recognize the Crossroads
* Create a Support Community
* Create Space for Facilitated Farewells
* Change the Framing to Manage Clinicians' Moral Distress
* Changing Culture outside Medicine
* Not Left Unsaid
* Authentic Personalization
* A Possible Map: Five Approaches to the ICU
* Approach 1: Do Everything
* Approach 2: Be Aggressive Only if I Have a Reasonable Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 3: Only Admit Me to the ICU if I Have an Excellent Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 4: Don't Admit Me to the ICU
* Approach 5: Don't Admit Me to a Hospital; Focus Only on My Comfort
* Epilogue. What Should We Do in the Meanwhile?
* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* SECTION ONE: PAST
* Chapter 1. A Culture in Crisis
* Historical Death Culture and the Dying of Death
* Life Support and the Miracles of Resuscitation
* The Rise of Intensive Care and "Life Support "
* Life in the 1960s
* Chapter 2. The Rise of the Living Will
* The Findings of the Court
* Legislation
* Disclosurism and a Focus on Procedures
* Improving enforcement
* Futility, Financial Disaster, and Obligations to Society
* Expanding horizons
* Chapter 3: Empirical and Ethical Problems with Living Wills
* Conceptual Problems with Living Wills
* Pig Iron under Water: Living Wills Don't Apply in Real Life
* Paradoxical Threats to Autonomy
* "If I'm ever like that, let me die ": Disability Stigma
* The Limits of Prediction Make Living Wills Difficult to Use
* Problems of race
* Living Wills Can Backfire
* Empirical evidence that Living Wills Don't Work
* SECTION TWO: PRESENT
* Chapter 4. Living Wills Don't Make Decisions; Human Beings Do
* Thinking like a Human Being
* What your Brain Doesn't Know Might Kill You
* Affective forecasting and psychological adaptation
* Things that Go Bump in the Night
* Moral Distress
* Moral Hazards
* Choosing to See
* Chapter 5. The Barbaric Life of the ICU
* Barbarism and Brutality
* The Experience of the Ventilator
* Immobilization
* Tubes and more tubes
* The Brain under Siege
* Terrible Communication
* We Don't Always Know What We Want
* Deforming Death in the Rush to Rescue
* Chapter 6. Life after the ICU
* A Few Visionary Researchers
* The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
* Bodies
* Muscles
* Lungs
* Brains
* Psyches
* Is It All Worth It?
* The Tension between Outcomes Research and Advance Directives
* SECTION THREE: FUTURE
* Chapter 7. Reform: The Current State of the Art
* Eliciting Values and Wishes
* Registration Drives for Advance Directives in Wisconsin
* Multimedia Persuasion
* Tailoring Advance Care Planning
* Decision Aids
* Choice Architecture
* The Science of Communication
* The Conversation Project
* Redesigning the ICU
* Chapter 8. Healing the Intensive Care Unit
* Let Families In
* Fixing Code Status
* Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
* Wrapping Up
* Recognize the Crossroads
* Create a Support Community
* Create Space for Facilitated Farewells
* Change the Framing to Manage Clinicians' Moral Distress
* Changing Culture outside Medicine
* Not Left Unsaid
* Authentic Personalization
* A Possible Map: Five Approaches to the ICU
* Approach 1: Do Everything
* Approach 2: Be Aggressive Only if I Have a Reasonable Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 3: Only Admit Me to the ICU if I Have an Excellent Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 4: Don't Admit Me to the ICU
* Approach 5: Don't Admit Me to a Hospital; Focus Only on My Comfort
* Epilogue. What Should We Do in the Meanwhile?
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* SECTION ONE: PAST
* Chapter 1. A Culture in Crisis
* Historical Death Culture and the Dying of Death
* Life Support and the Miracles of Resuscitation
* The Rise of Intensive Care and "Life Support "
* Life in the 1960s
* Chapter 2. The Rise of the Living Will
* The Findings of the Court
* Legislation
* Disclosurism and a Focus on Procedures
* Improving enforcement
* Futility, Financial Disaster, and Obligations to Society
* Expanding horizons
* Chapter 3: Empirical and Ethical Problems with Living Wills
* Conceptual Problems with Living Wills
* Pig Iron under Water: Living Wills Don't Apply in Real Life
* Paradoxical Threats to Autonomy
* "If I'm ever like that, let me die ": Disability Stigma
* The Limits of Prediction Make Living Wills Difficult to Use
* Problems of race
* Living Wills Can Backfire
* Empirical evidence that Living Wills Don't Work
* SECTION TWO: PRESENT
* Chapter 4. Living Wills Don't Make Decisions; Human Beings Do
* Thinking like a Human Being
* What your Brain Doesn't Know Might Kill You
* Affective forecasting and psychological adaptation
* Things that Go Bump in the Night
* Moral Distress
* Moral Hazards
* Choosing to See
* Chapter 5. The Barbaric Life of the ICU
* Barbarism and Brutality
* The Experience of the Ventilator
* Immobilization
* Tubes and more tubes
* The Brain under Siege
* Terrible Communication
* We Don't Always Know What We Want
* Deforming Death in the Rush to Rescue
* Chapter 6. Life after the ICU
* A Few Visionary Researchers
* The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
* Bodies
* Muscles
* Lungs
* Brains
* Psyches
* Is It All Worth It?
* The Tension between Outcomes Research and Advance Directives
* SECTION THREE: FUTURE
* Chapter 7. Reform: The Current State of the Art
* Eliciting Values and Wishes
* Registration Drives for Advance Directives in Wisconsin
* Multimedia Persuasion
* Tailoring Advance Care Planning
* Decision Aids
* Choice Architecture
* The Science of Communication
* The Conversation Project
* Redesigning the ICU
* Chapter 8. Healing the Intensive Care Unit
* Let Families In
* Fixing Code Status
* Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
* Wrapping Up
* Recognize the Crossroads
* Create a Support Community
* Create Space for Facilitated Farewells
* Change the Framing to Manage Clinicians' Moral Distress
* Changing Culture outside Medicine
* Not Left Unsaid
* Authentic Personalization
* A Possible Map: Five Approaches to the ICU
* Approach 1: Do Everything
* Approach 2: Be Aggressive Only if I Have a Reasonable Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 3: Only Admit Me to the ICU if I Have an Excellent Chance of
Recovery
* Approach 4: Don't Admit Me to the ICU
* Approach 5: Don't Admit Me to a Hospital; Focus Only on My Comfort
* Epilogue. What Should We Do in the Meanwhile?