Bibliograph

Twelve breaths a minute, end-of-life essays, edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Francine Prose

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Twelve breaths a minute, end-of-life essays, edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Francine Prose

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Twelve breaths a minute

Oclc number

678924361

Responsibility statement

edited by Lee Gutkind ; foreword by Karen Wolk Feinstein ; introduction by Francine Prose

Series statement

Medical humanities

Sub title

end-of-life essays

Summary

Twelve Breaths a Minute--the latest collaboration between SMU Press and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation--features twenty-three original, compelling personal narratives that examine the way we as a society care for the dying. Here a poet, a former hospice worker, reflects on death's mysteries; a son wanders the halls of his mother's nursing home, lost in the small absurdities of the place; a grief counselor struggles with losing his own grandfather; a medical intern traces the origins of time and the quality of our final days; a mother anguishes over her decision to turn off her daughter's life support and allow her organs to be harvested; and an emergency dispatcher tries to quantify what a stranger's death should mean

Table Of Contents

Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein -- Introduction: Last days / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Galley Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine A. Musemeche -- Simple gifts / Beecher Grogan -- Living and dying well / Therese Zink -- A better place / Valerie Seiling Jacobs -- Waiting (to go home) / Howard Mansfield -- Mr. Stone / Diana Flescher -- Rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- The business of grief / Joe Primo -- This is blood / Sandell Morse -- A figurative death / Carol Cooley -- Whose failure was it? / Jonathan Weinkle -- The measure of time / Amanda J. Redig -- The deep truth / Eugenia Smith -- The resurrection of Wonder Woman / Eleanor Vincent -- Twelve breaths a minute / Gulchin A. Ergun

Target audience

adult

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