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    Katy Butler.
    Summary: "An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggle to allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker that caused her eighty-four-year-old father's heart to outlive his brain, Katy Butler, an award-winning science writer, embarked on a quest to understand why modern medicine was depriving him of a humane, timely death. After his lingering death, Katy's mother, nearly broken by years of nonstop caregiving, defied her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and insisted on facing death the old-fashioned way: bravely, lucidly, and head on. Against this backdrop of familial love, wrenching moral choices, and redemption, Knocking on Heaven's Door celebrates the inventors of the 1950s who cobbled together lifesaving machines like the pacemaker and it exposes the tangled marriage of technology, medicine, and commerce that gave us a modern way of death: more painful, expensive, and prolonged than ever before. Caring for declining parents is a reality facing millions who may someday tell a doctor: "Let my parent go." A riveting exploration of the forgotten art of dying, Knocking on Heaven's Door empowers readers to create new rites of passage to the "Good Deaths" our ancestors so prized. Like Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death and How We Die by Sherwin Nuland, it is sure to cause controversy and open minds"-- Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    Pt. 1: The stroke. Along came a blackbird ; A year of grace ; Rites of passage
    Pt. 2: Fast medicine. The tyranny of hope ; Inventing lifesaving and transforming death ; My father's open heart
    Pt. 3: Ordeal. Not getting better ; Dharma sisters ; Broke-down palace ; White water
    Pt. 4: Rebellion. The sorcerer's apprentice ; The business of lifesaving ; Deactivation
    Pt. 5: Acceptance. The art of dying ; Afterward
    Pt. 6: Grace. Valerie makes up her mind ; Old plum tree bent and gnarled
    Pt. 7: Into the light. A better way of death ; A map through the labyrinth ; Notes for a new art of dying.
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    Books: General Collection (Downstairs)
    2013
    R726.8 .B884 2013
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  • Article
    Tärnvik A, Holm SE.
    Infect Immun. 1978 Jun;20(3):698-704.
    When purified T lymphocytes from individuals vaccinated with a viable, attenuated strain of Francisella tularensis were incubated in vitro in the presence of heat-killed bacteria or a membrane preparation of the vaccine strain, they were stimulated to form blast cells and to synthesize deoxyribonucleic acid. The blast cells had the characteristics of T cells, being devoid of surface immunoglobulin and able to form rosettes with sheep erythrocytes. The stimulation occurred only when monocytes were present. A lymphocyte preparation enriched in B lymphocytes did not respond to the heat-killed bacteria or to the membrane preparation. In a stimulated mononuclear leukocyte preparation, about 70% of the blast cells formed rosettes with sheep erythrocytes, and 10 to 20% of them had surface immunoglobulin. The results show that there is an enlarged population of specifically committed T lymphocytes after tularemia vaccination. It is suggested that the lymphocyte stimulation test measures mainly T-lymphocyte reactivity when membranes or whole bacteria of F. tularensis LVS are used as antigen, and that the stimulation of human T lymphocytes by whole bacteria or bacterial membranes is completely monocyte or macrophage dependent. The present experimental procedure may provide a model for study of antigen-induced stimulation of human lymphocytes under controlled conditions. The technique used gave a reproducible, extremely purified preparation of T lymphocytes and a preparation of monocytes especially suitable for microcultures.
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