Dancing With Mister D: Notes on Life and Death - Hardcover

Keizer, Bert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385484976 ISBN 13: 9780385484978

Publisher: Doubleday, 1997

Synopsis

A doctor and philosopher in Holland, where euthanasia is legal, recounts his experiences in a nursing home among the terminally ill and documents the experiences of patients and three other doctors.

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tes soar, and the issue of "self-deliverance" stays in the headlines, the American pre-occupation with death and dying has never been more intense. In this remarkable new book, Bert Keizer, a Dutch doctor with training in philosophy as well as medicine, probes these concerns with understanding and insight as he shares with us his extraordinary experiences among the terminally ill.<br><br><br><br>We follow Keizer through his days at a nursing home in Holland as he listens to his patients' stories, documents their battle with disease, and witnesses their taking their own lives in order to die with dignity. All this is given counterpoint by the trio of doctors with whom Keizer works, whose outlooks range from detachment to despair to naive faith in the power of medicine. And throughout are Keizer's brilliant, often startling meditations on the nature of his work--shedding new light on such topics as the placebo effect, the oddness of the verb "to die," and, of course, euth

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385484976
• ISBN 13: 9780385484978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324