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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.

1st ed.

Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 2011.

xviii, 267 pages ; 24 cm.

An anthology with the reflections of family members, nurses, physicians, and hospice workers as they care for the dying. From publisher description.

Medical humanities

Medical humanities.

Terminal care.

Death.

Caregivers.

Terminally ill -- Family relationships.

Palliative treatment.

Hospice care.

Death -- Psychological aspects.

Terminally ill.

Gutkind, Lee.

Editor's Note: Frank at the piano -- Foreword: New approaches to end-of-life care / Karen Wolk Feinstein --Introduction / Francine Prose -- To morning / Anne Jacobson -- On bearing witness / Laurie Foos -- Insights in the rearview mirror / Phyllis Westover -- The general / Larry D. Cripe -- Yellow taxi / Eve Joseph -- Wake-up call / Catherine 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 -- The rules / Maria Meindl -- Life and death and 911 / Caroline Burau -- Snowing in Krakow / Marcin Chwistek -- Do you remember? / Patricia McCarthy -- Just listen while the kettle boils / 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 Ergun.

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.

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