Life before Death

End of life decisions and quality of care before death.

Before birth--after death.

F our recent events have reminded us that many people are concerned about what happens before birth and after death, even if what happens before birth happens to those who will never be born and even if the near death happenings occur after death and to those who cannot care about them. The recent events involve a decision of the European Court of Human Rights, a decision of the UK Human Fertil...

My life before penicillin

TEIZO OGAWA (editor), History of the professionalization ofmedicine: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on the Comparative History ofMedicine-East and West, Osaka, The Taniguchi Foundation, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 187, [no price stated], (paperback). Although this is the third in a series of volumes based on the annual Taniguchi International Symposia, its successors, volumes four through...

Life before Myocardial Infarction

The health burden of myocardial infarction is rising for middle-aged women and they are underrepresented in research of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how life had been for middle-aged women before they suffered a myocardial infarction (MI). Through a health care register, we identified all women (n = 46) under 65 years of age in a defined region in so...

Life & Death

life insurance policy (college freshman), about the same as the Gettysburg Address, and much less readable than Hemingway (fifth grade level). I used more words per sentence than Hemingway (18.5 versus 13.5) but less than Lincoln (26.8). I used longer words than any of the references (4.8 letters per word, versus 4.0 for Hemingway) but used fewer prepositions (10.7 percent) than any of the othe...