Sharon R. Kaufman is professor of medical anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and several books including, And a Time to Die, The Healer's Tale, and The Ageless Self. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A reassuring and illuminating examination on our conflicting wishes about the end of life, how the politics and routines of the American hospital have formed our understanding and experience of death, and ultimately why what we consider a "good death" is so hard to attain.In a penetrating...
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