The Way We Die Now
by Seamus O’Mahoney, Head of Zeus, £14.99
Medical advances since the war have given Western populations unprecedented levels of health, cures for disease and longer life-spans. This is a good thing. But inevitably such advances bring with them new ethical questions for doctors and patients alike, such as when is further treatment useless, when should intervention give way to palliative care, and so on. O’Mahoney, a consultant gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital, brings his own thoughtful and intelligent voice to this debate.
