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Casting Off the Perishable

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In this narrative, the author, a physician, recounts her mother's courageous, controversial final decisions and the interior struggles that subsequently confront the daughter-doctor. Family dynamics are outlined in this journalistic format, and tensions including the daughter's commitment to defending her mother's choice and the daughter's own grief, are presented.

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  1. Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York

    Kathy Faber-Langendoen (Director)

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Faber-Langendoen, K. Casting Off the Perishable. Journal of Medical Humanities 22, 285–297 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016610909884

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