Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

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An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last sixty years, from two eminent scholars. An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but regularly withheld the truth from their patients, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno explore an unprecedented revolution in health care and explain the problem with America's wanting everything that medical science has to offer without debating its merits and its limits. The result: Americans today pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno—"incisive, influential, and pragmatic thinkers"... V. 1. The early writings / edited by T.O. McLoughlin and James T. Boulton -- v. 2. Party, Parliament, and the American crisis, 1766-1774 -- v. 3. Party, parliament, and the American War, 1774-1780 / edited by W.M. Elofson with John A. Woods -- v. 4. Party, Parliament and the dividing of the Whigs, 1780-1794 / edited by P.J. Marshall and Donald C. Bryant textual editor for the writings, the late William B. Todd -- v. 5. India : Madras and Bengal, 1773-1785 -- v. 6. India: the launching of the Hastings impeachment, 1786-1788 / edited by P.J. Marshall -- v. 7. India : the Hastings Trial, 1789-1794 / edited by P.J. Marshall -- v. 8. The French revolution, 1790-1794 / edited by L.G. Mitchell -- v. 9. The revolutionary War, 1794-1797 Ireland / edited by R.B. McDowell.