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• "We Can't Kill Your Mother!" and Other Stories of Intensive Care, by Lawrence Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• Intensive Care Units (ICUs): Clinical Outcomes, Costs, and Decisionmaking (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1984), by Robert A. Berenson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Chequer Board (c1947), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)
• The Heart of Hospice, by Dorothy C. H. Ley and Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2015), by Susan Eva Lowey (multiple formats with commentary at opensuny.org)

• Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know (2003), ed. by June Rigby Lunney, Kathleen M. Foley, Thomas J. Smith, and Hellen Gelband (page images at NAP)
• Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life, ed. by Marilyn J. Field and Christine K. Cassel (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Institutional Protocols for Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatments: Special Report (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia (electronic edition, 1995), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2003), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Birds' Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children (second edition, 2001), by Martha A. Q. Curley and Pat Moloney-Harmon (PDF files here at Penn)

• The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner: A Transformational Journey (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Judy Rashotte (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly (OTA-BA-306; Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Suggestions for the Proving of Drugs on the Healthy: Report of the Committee Appointed for That Purpose (1853), by American Provers' Union (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment (1995), ed. by Richard A. Rettig and Adam Yarmolinsky (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children (second edition, 2001), by Martha A. Q. Curley and Pat Moloney-Harmon (PDF files here at Penn)

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• The Incubator Baby (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), by Ellis Parker Butler (page images at neonatology.org)

• PALS: Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• An Essay on Suspended Animation (Philadelphia: E. Parker, 1823), by Samuel Colhoun
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Prospect of Immortality, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)

• Hell in an Uproar: A Satyr, Occasioned By a Scuffle Which Lately Happened Between the Lawyers and Physicians for Superiority (London: Printed for T. Watkins, 1750), by Richard Burridge (page images at NIH)
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text; 2.3 MB
• Curiosities of Medical Experience (second edition; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by J. G. Millingen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Medical Student's Primer (1901), by Martha Tracy (page images at Drexel)

• The Circle of Anecdote and Wit: A Choice Collection of Pieces of Humour, including Many Never Before Printed (while credited to Colman on the title page, disowned by him; London: J. Williams, 1826), contrib. by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democritus Ridens: Sive, Campus Recreationum Honestarum, Cum Exorcismo Melancholiae (in Latin, anonymously published but attributed to Lange; Augusburg: I. J. Loteri, 1754), by Johann Peter Lange
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature: Recueillis par M. de Vigneul-Marville (3 volumes in French; Rotterdam: E. Yvans, 1700-1702), by Bonaventure d' Argonne
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 1, second edition: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
• One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)
• The Treasury of Wit, With Comic Engravings (London: Printed for T. Allman, 1836) (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Anecdotes and Traditions, Illustrative of Early English History and Literature (London: Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and son, 1839), ed. by William John Thoms, contrib. by Nicholas L'Estrange, John Aubrey, and John Collet (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Century of Anecdote, From 1760 to 1860 (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1864), ed. by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jests, New and Old: Containing Anecdotes of Celebrities, Living and Deceased, Many of Which Have Never Before Been Published (London: J. W. Jarvis and Son, ca. 1887), ed. by William Carew Hazlitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Variety: or, Selections and Essays, Consisting of Anecdotes, Curious Facts, Interesting Narratives, with Occasional Reflections (Philadelphia: Published by James P. Parke, 1809), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
• Beauties of Sentiment: Or an Original Collection of Moral Anecdotes, for the Young (Boston: J. Punchard, 1831) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts, Collected for the Amusement of Children (7th edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)

• The Dying Hours of Good and Bad Men Contrasted (1854), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (PDF in Australia)
• Infidel Death-Beds (New York: Truth Seeker Company, ca. 1910), by G. W. Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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