Ronald Munson: 2 books
The Woman Who Decided to Die
Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Advances in medical technology force us to struggle with new and often gut-wrenching decisions. How do we know when someone is dead and not just in a coma? Should a convicted felon qualify for a new heart? In The Woman Who Decided to Die, novelist and medical ethicist Ronald Munson takes readers to...
Raising the Dead
Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting...