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Essential. --Choice, Outstanding Academic Titles, 2019

Shapiro provides a thick description of the culture, procedures, language, and emotional tenor within a busy hospital's most critical care units. The volume offers excellent illustrations... that will make sense to non-medical readers. In that sense, this volume provides an outstanding view 'behind the privacy curtains' of the oft-shrouded world of the intensive care unit (p. 10). -- Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics [This] book is . . . a thoughtful evidence-based reminder of the need to correct our public discourse on death and dying. -- American Journal of Sociology Essential. -- Choice, Outstanding Academic Titles, 2019 Speaking for the Dying is a remarkably vivid account of intensive care medicine with important findings that will help patients, families, and researchers better understand the process of surrogate decision-making and the social structure that shapes how decisions are made. -- Social Forces

Essential. -- Choice, Outstanding Academic Titles, 2019

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Susan P. Shapiro is a sociologist and research professor at the American Bar Foundation. She is the author, most recently, of Tangled Loyalties.

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