Alan B Astrow

Biographic Data

ID697719
NAMEAlan B Astrow
GIVEN NAMESAlan B
FAMILY NAMEAstrow
SIGNATUREASTROW A B
AFFILIATIONSMaimonides Medical Center
ORCID0000-0001-9020-4020
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Thinking about Hope in the Care of Cancer Patients

    Open AccessAlan B AstrowARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2025

    Medical science has delivered extraordinary advances during my forty‐year career as a medical oncologist. But might the science's justified prestige unhelpfully diminish our respect for other needed forms for understanding the human experience? This is a critical issue for physicians, who may be present with patients at moments of profound existential challenge. By equating hope with scientific progress and limiting its own role to purveyor of th…

  • The Challenges of a Partnership between Medicine and Religion

    Open AccessAlan B AstrowARTICLESociety2019Cited by: 1

  • Jewish Values, Empathy, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Open AccessAlan B AstrowARTICLESociety2015

  • The Achievement of Daniel Callahan

    Open AccessAlan B AstrowARTICLESociety2014

  • Is Medicine a Spiritual Vocation

    Open AccessAlan B AstrowARTICLESociety2013

  • Case Study: An Alert and Incompetent Self The Irrelevance of Advance Directives

    Rebecca Dresser, Alan B AstrowARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1998

    A seventy-three-year-old woman with a history of emphysema and manic depression was admitted to the hospital with shortness of breath. She was treated with steroids but developed progressive respiratory failure and psychosis. She was intubated and transferred to the intensive care unit where she was found to have a blood clot in her lung. She was treated with a blood-thinning agent and had a major blood episode. She remained confused, presumably …

  • The Incompetent Self: Metamorphosis of a Person

    Sarah M Dietz, Sarah-Vaughan Brakman et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1998

  • When I Can't Make You Live

    Alan B Astrow, Robert Misbin et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1992

  • Anxiety—frustration—repressed Hostility

    Alan B Astrow, ALAN ASTROWARTICLEJournal of the History of…1980

    ANXIETY—FRUSTRATION—REPRESSED HOSTILITY Get access ALAN ASTROW ALAN ASTROW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, October 1980, Page 453, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXV.4.453 Published: 01 October 1980

  • A Drawing by Charles Addams (B. 1912)

    Alan B Astrow, ALAN ASTROWARTICLEJournal of the History of…1978

    A DRAWING BY CHARLES ADDAMS (b. 1912) Get access ALAN ASTROW ALAN ASTROW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, January 1978, Page 74, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXIII.1.74 Published: 01 January 1978