000			01810nam a22003258i 4500
001			019699936
003			Uk
005			20221003171741.0
006			a||||er|||| 000 0
007			ta
008			191203s2020 enka erb 000|0|eng d
015			_aGBC016021 _2bnb
016	7		_a019699936 _2Uk
020			_a9780857526946 (hardback)
040			_aStDuBDS _beng _cStDuBDS _erda
100	1		_aJarrett, David, _eauthor
245	1	0	_a33 meditations on death : _bnotes from the wrong end of medicine / _cDavid Jarrett.
246	3		_aThirty three meditations on death.
264		1	_aLondon : _bDoubleday, _c2020.
300			_a289 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c23 cm
520			_aWhat is a good death? How would you choose to live your last few months? How do we best care for the rising tide of very elderly? This unusual and important book is a series of reflections on death in all its forms: the science of it, the medicine, the tragedy and the comedy. Dr David Jarrett draws on family stories and case histories from his thirty years of treating the old, demented and frail to try to find his own understanding of the end. Profound, provocative, strangely funny and astonishingly compelling, it is an impassioned plea that we start talking frankly and openly about death. He writes about all the conversations that we, our parents, our children, the medical community, our government and society as a whole should be having. And it is a call to arms for us to make radical changes to our perspective on 'the seventh age of man'
650		0	_aDeath _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aDeath _vAnecdotes.
942			_2ddc _cG
999			_c277 _d277