Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of Vonnegut's personal heroes. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of Vonnegut's personal heroes. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of Vonnegut's personal heroes. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.
Death on Demand
Author: Michael DeCesare
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442242140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing constant media attention as he helped more than one hundred people kill themselves. The book opens with the death of Janet Adkins in 1990—Kevorkian’s first assisted suicide—then travels back to Kevorkian’s medical school days and follows his nearly four decades as a lone activist. Death on Demand draws on Kevorkian’s interviews and published work as well as newspaper and magazine articles to describe the doctor’s publicity stunts, criminal trials, years in prison, and activities after he was paroled. Author Michael DeCesare examines Kevorkian’s actions in the context of the right-to-die movement to understand his crucial role in bringing the controversial practice of assisted suicide into the public conversation.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442242140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing constant media attention as he helped more than one hundred people kill themselves. The book opens with the death of Janet Adkins in 1990—Kevorkian’s first assisted suicide—then travels back to Kevorkian’s medical school days and follows his nearly four decades as a lone activist. Death on Demand draws on Kevorkian’s interviews and published work as well as newspaper and magazine articles to describe the doctor’s publicity stunts, criminal trials, years in prison, and activities after he was paroled. Author Michael DeCesare examines Kevorkian’s actions in the context of the right-to-die movement to understand his crucial role in bringing the controversial practice of assisted suicide into the public conversation.
Between the Dying and the Dead
Author: Neal Nicol Harry Wylie
Publisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299217136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Dr. Jack Kevorkianthe enigmatic and intrepid physician dubbed Dr. Deathhas for years declined public interviews about his life and the events that led him to be a vehement advocate of doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. But here, finally, is his own life story, as told to Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. Dr. Kevorkian gained international notoriety in the 1990s for his passionate advocacy of choice for terminal patients, who have increasingly won the right to decide the time, place, and method of their own death in several western countries. In 1998, he assisted Thomas Youk, a terminally ill patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, with a lethal injection that was broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes. Immediately thereafter, Kevorkian was arrested, charged with second-degree murder, tried, and sentenced to 10-25 years in Michigan's maximum-security prison system. Today, Dr. Kevorkian is in his late seventies and in failing health himself. He shares an eight-by-twelve-foot cell with another inmate in the Thumb Correctional Facility at Lapeer, Michigan. The unique story Prisoner Number 284797 shares far exceeds the battle to legalize euthanasia and end human suffering for terminal patients. Personal choice is really what it is all about. Quality of life, as opposed to maintaining existence (Kevorkian to Vanity Fair, 1994)Co-published with Vision, U.K.
Publisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299217136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Dr. Jack Kevorkianthe enigmatic and intrepid physician dubbed Dr. Deathhas for years declined public interviews about his life and the events that led him to be a vehement advocate of doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. But here, finally, is his own life story, as told to Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. Dr. Kevorkian gained international notoriety in the 1990s for his passionate advocacy of choice for terminal patients, who have increasingly won the right to decide the time, place, and method of their own death in several western countries. In 1998, he assisted Thomas Youk, a terminally ill patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, with a lethal injection that was broadcast on CBS's 60 Minutes. Immediately thereafter, Kevorkian was arrested, charged with second-degree murder, tried, and sentenced to 10-25 years in Michigan's maximum-security prison system. Today, Dr. Kevorkian is in his late seventies and in failing health himself. He shares an eight-by-twelve-foot cell with another inmate in the Thumb Correctional Facility at Lapeer, Michigan. The unique story Prisoner Number 284797 shares far exceeds the battle to legalize euthanasia and end human suffering for terminal patients. Personal choice is really what it is all about. Quality of life, as opposed to maintaining existence (Kevorkian to Vanity Fair, 1994)Co-published with Vision, U.K.
Appointment with Doctor Death
Author: Michael Betzold
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Biography of pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian, discussing his life and his involvement with assisted suicide.
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Biography of pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian, discussing his life and his involvement with assisted suicide.
Prescription--medicide
Author: Jack Kevorkian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879756772
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A solid, sober, humane discussion of planned death and its potential impact on organ harvesting and medical experimentation, by the iconoclastic doctor who invented the "suicide machine" and who made headlines in June of 1990 when he aided Janet Adkins in performing the first publicly acknowledged physician-assisted suicide. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780879756772
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A solid, sober, humane discussion of planned death and its potential impact on organ harvesting and medical experimentation, by the iconoclastic doctor who invented the "suicide machine" and who made headlines in June of 1990 when he aided Janet Adkins in performing the first publicly acknowledged physician-assisted suicide. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
Author: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.
Medical Research and the Death Penalty
Author: Jack Kevorkian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathematics
Author: J. Kevorkian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475742134
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This book is a revised and updated version, including a substantial portion of new material, of J. D. Cole's text Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathe matics, Ginn-Blaisdell, 1968. We present the material at a level which assumes some familiarity with the basics of ordinary and partial differential equations. Some of the more advanced ideas are reviewed as needed; therefore this book can serve as a text in either an advanced undergraduate course or a graduate level course on the subject. The applied mathematician, attempting to understand or solve a physical problem, very often uses a perturbation procedure. In doing this, he usually draws on a backlog of experience gained from the solution of similar examples rather than on some general theory of perturbations. The aim of this book is to survey these perturbation methods, especially in connection with differ ential equations, in order to illustrate certain general features common to many examples. The basic ideas, however, are also applicable to integral equations, integrodifferential equations, and even to_difference equations. In essence, a perturbation procedure consists of constructing the solution for a problem involving a small parameter B, either in the differential equation or the boundary conditions or both, when the solution for the limiting case B = 0 is known. The main mathematical tool used is asymptotic expansion with respect to a suitable asymptotic sequence of functions of B.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475742134
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
This book is a revised and updated version, including a substantial portion of new material, of J. D. Cole's text Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathe matics, Ginn-Blaisdell, 1968. We present the material at a level which assumes some familiarity with the basics of ordinary and partial differential equations. Some of the more advanced ideas are reviewed as needed; therefore this book can serve as a text in either an advanced undergraduate course or a graduate level course on the subject. The applied mathematician, attempting to understand or solve a physical problem, very often uses a perturbation procedure. In doing this, he usually draws on a backlog of experience gained from the solution of similar examples rather than on some general theory of perturbations. The aim of this book is to survey these perturbation methods, especially in connection with differ ential equations, in order to illustrate certain general features common to many examples. The basic ideas, however, are also applicable to integral equations, integrodifferential equations, and even to_difference equations. In essence, a perturbation procedure consists of constructing the solution for a problem involving a small parameter B, either in the differential equation or the boundary conditions or both, when the solution for the limiting case B = 0 is known. The main mathematical tool used is asymptotic expansion with respect to a suitable asymptotic sequence of functions of B.
Paging Dr. Kevorkian
Author: Jayme Alan Toomey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469187760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Author Jayme Alan Toomey Publishes a Grand Slam Horror Fiction Three gut-wrenching, suspenseful stories in one thrilling book lure in fans everywhere VENTURA, Calif. Gory, grim and perplexing, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a breakthrough realease by horror fiction author Jayme Alan Toomey. Keen in treating fans to an unforgettable reading experience, he collects three utterly confounding stories Breakin Heads, Paging Dr. Kevorkian, and Written in Stupidand puts them together in a book that delivers three times the horror and the thrill. Breakin Heads, follows the queer and shady relationship between Buster Adamsa blonde, green-eyed, 250-pound, six-foot tall rough neckand Lisha Millicenta beautiful, blonde, petite yet voluptuous, and sassy young woman. It is family Thanksgiving dinner at the Millicents. But the atmosphere is far from being familial or thankful. It will not be long before someone loses control and unleashes all hatred caged within. Paging Dr. Kevorkian, is a gripping story that beckons for Dr. Death. Alex Morris is imprisoned in his guilt feelings and his denial for coming to terms with the tragedy that has befallen him and his precious love. Jasmine, a once beautiful wannabe supermodel, is now imprisoned in her wheelchair and her ill feelings blaming Alex for making her an invalid. Gradually, their story spirals deeper and deeper into misery and death. Written in Stupid tells the tale of Octavian Kamara, who can creatively bring to life his most erotic fantasies, is constantly wrapped under the spell of the beautiful and seductive Page. Whether in class, on a trip, or elsewhere, he is always torn between reality and fantasy, horror and romance. Brilliantly-crafted, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a book that definitely engages readers and leaves them baffled long after they have turned the last pages of each of its stories. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com. About the Author Jayme Alan Toomey is the author of Divine Inspiration, The Tag Along, A Passin' On, and Paging Dr. Kevorkian. A native of New England, he now resides in Ventura, California. Paging Dr. Kevorkian * by Jayme Alan Toomey Publication Date: April 16, 2012 Trade Paperback; $23.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8774-7 Trade Hardback; $34.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8775-4 eBook; $3.99; 978-1-4691-8776-1 To request a complimentary paperback review copy, contact the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469187760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Author Jayme Alan Toomey Publishes a Grand Slam Horror Fiction Three gut-wrenching, suspenseful stories in one thrilling book lure in fans everywhere VENTURA, Calif. Gory, grim and perplexing, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a breakthrough realease by horror fiction author Jayme Alan Toomey. Keen in treating fans to an unforgettable reading experience, he collects three utterly confounding stories Breakin Heads, Paging Dr. Kevorkian, and Written in Stupidand puts them together in a book that delivers three times the horror and the thrill. Breakin Heads, follows the queer and shady relationship between Buster Adamsa blonde, green-eyed, 250-pound, six-foot tall rough neckand Lisha Millicenta beautiful, blonde, petite yet voluptuous, and sassy young woman. It is family Thanksgiving dinner at the Millicents. But the atmosphere is far from being familial or thankful. It will not be long before someone loses control and unleashes all hatred caged within. Paging Dr. Kevorkian, is a gripping story that beckons for Dr. Death. Alex Morris is imprisoned in his guilt feelings and his denial for coming to terms with the tragedy that has befallen him and his precious love. Jasmine, a once beautiful wannabe supermodel, is now imprisoned in her wheelchair and her ill feelings blaming Alex for making her an invalid. Gradually, their story spirals deeper and deeper into misery and death. Written in Stupid tells the tale of Octavian Kamara, who can creatively bring to life his most erotic fantasies, is constantly wrapped under the spell of the beautiful and seductive Page. Whether in class, on a trip, or elsewhere, he is always torn between reality and fantasy, horror and romance. Brilliantly-crafted, Paging Dr. Kevorkian is a book that definitely engages readers and leaves them baffled long after they have turned the last pages of each of its stories. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com. About the Author Jayme Alan Toomey is the author of Divine Inspiration, The Tag Along, A Passin' On, and Paging Dr. Kevorkian. A native of New England, he now resides in Ventura, California. Paging Dr. Kevorkian * by Jayme Alan Toomey Publication Date: April 16, 2012 Trade Paperback; $23.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8774-7 Trade Hardback; $34.99; 530 pages; 978-1-4691-8775-4 eBook; $3.99; 978-1-4691-8776-1 To request a complimentary paperback review copy, contact the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7879. For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.
Glimmeriqs
Author: Dr Jack Kevorkian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935444343
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book was written by Dr. Jack Kevorkian while he was in prison. It is a memoir. It is an eclectic collection of songs, poems, essays, very striking and beautiful paintings, and much more. Dr. Kevorkian is an artist of the highest caliber. He has a one-of-a-kind worldview. glimmerIQs is one of the most entertaining books the reader will find.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935444343
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book was written by Dr. Jack Kevorkian while he was in prison. It is a memoir. It is an eclectic collection of songs, poems, essays, very striking and beautiful paintings, and much more. Dr. Kevorkian is an artist of the highest caliber. He has a one-of-a-kind worldview. glimmerIQs is one of the most entertaining books the reader will find.