Sharon R. Kaufman

Author of And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

4 Works 115 Members

About the Author

Sharon R. Kaufman is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life.

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Life Course Studies

Works by Sharon R. Kaufman

Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) (2015) 25 copies

The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life (Life Course Studies) (1986) 22 copies

The Healer's Tale: Transforming Medicine and Culture (Life Course Studies) (1993) 8 copies

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San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life (Nonfiction – 2005)

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Works: 4
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Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 10

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