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100 1 a| Chen, Pauline W.,d| 1964-=| ^A1126002;

245 10 a| Final exam :b| a surgeon's reflections on mortality /c| Pauline W. Chen.;

250 a| 1st Vintage Books ed.;

260 a| New York :b| Vintage Books,c| 2008.;

300 a| xv, 267 pages, 1 unnumbered page ;c| 20 cm;

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338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-[268]).;

520 a| A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives-- what she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Over the course of her education, training, and practice, she grappled at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, struggling to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. Her rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a provocative questioning of how we should live.--From publisher description.;

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650 0 a| Deathx| Moral and ethical aspects.=| ^A240331;

650 0 a| Terminal carex| Moral and ethical aspects.=| ^A5366;

600 10 a| Chen, Pauline W.,d| 1964-=| ^A1126002;

650 12 a| Attitude to Deathv| Personal Narratives.=| ^A917931;

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650 22 a| Terminal Carex| ethicsv| Personal Narratives.=| ^A939205;

650 22 a| Terminal Carex| psychologyv| Personal Narratives.=| ^A919829;

650 22 a| Transplantationv| Personal Narratives.=| ^A917635;

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Final exam : a surgeon's reflections on mortality / Pauline W. Chen.

Author/creator	Chen, Pauline W., 1964-
Format	Book
Edition	1st Vintage Books ed.
Publication Info	New York : Vintage Books, 2008.
Description	xv, 267 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
Subjects	Chen, Pauline W., 1964- Surgeons--Biography. Death--Moral and ethical aspects. Terminal care--Moral and ethical aspects. Attitude to Death--Personal Narratives. Death--Personal Narratives. Terminal Care--ethics. --Personal Narratives. Terminal Care--psychology. --Personal Narratives. Transplantation--Personal Narratives.

Abstract	A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives-- what she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine's most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also systematically depersonalizes dying. Over the course of her education, training, and practice, she grappled at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, struggling to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. Her rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the end, a provocative questioning of how we should live.--From publisher description.
Local note	Laupus WC Contract Cataloging
General note	Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-[268]).
ISBN	030727537X (trade pbk.)
ISBN	9780307275370 (trade pbk.)

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