ABSTRACT

This fourth volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series contemplates the challenge of the prognosis, of looking ahead, wondering what will happen, and attempting to make sense of life and death.

chapter 1|8 pages

Narratives

chapter 3|10 pages

Prognosis as process

chapter 5|10 pages

Acute and chronic

chapter 6|14 pages

Becoming

chapter 7|12 pages

Prognosis or prophecy?

chapter 8|14 pages

First do no harm

chapter 9|12 pages

Technology, ageing and death

chapter 10|16 pages

Open futures, human finitude