Kathryn L. Braun / James H. Pietsch / Patricia L. Blanchette (eds.)

Cultural Issues in End-Of-Life Decision Making

Herausgeber: Braun, Kathryn; Blanchette, Patricia L.; Pietsch, James H.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Questions that face dying individuals, their families, and the professionals that help them at the end of their lifes are explored in this volume. The contributors help the reader to come to terms with issues of mortality complicated by the diversity of cultures within society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780761912170
• ISBN-10: 0761912177
• Artikelnr.: 22285999

Autorenporträt

Dr. Kathryn L. Braun is Professor and Chair of the DrPH Program in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She has a joint appointment with the School of Social Work, where she serves as Co-Investigator of the National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders. She is affiliated with the UH Center on Aging, through which she serves as evaluator for the Hawai'i Healthy Aging Partnership, dedicated to building capacity to deliver evidence-based health promotion programs for older adults. She also is Research Director of 'Imi Hale -- Native Hawaiian Cancer Network, which is funded through a grant to Papa Ola Lo¯kahi (a Native Hawaiian Health organization) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this role, she mentors Native Hawaiians who want to expand their skills in research, grant writing, and publishing. Dr. Braun's primary teaching responsibilities are in the doctoral program, teaching seminars on health disparities and evidence-based public health. She is known for her work in community-based participatory research in cancer and gerontology, and she has published more than 125 peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics. She is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. She also consults as a trainer and program evaluator in Hawai'i. Dr. Braun is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served in the Philippines (Bontoc) in the 1970s. In 2008, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Busan, Korea. She is the 2009-2011 President of the Active Aging Consortium Asia Pacific, an international network of gerontologists in Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She likes to travel and has visited all 7 continents and more than 110 countries. James H. Pietsch joined the law school after first having served on active duty in the US Army Medical Service Corps and the Judge Advocate General's Corps and subsequently serving as the directing attorney of the Honolulu Elder Law Unit of the Legal Aid Society of Hawai′i. At the law school he teaches Law, Aging and Medicine, Elder Law Clinic, Advanced Elder Law Clinic, and Health Law: Bioethics. He also holds a joint appointment at the John A. Burns School of Medicine where he specializes in issues at the intersection of law, aging, medicine, bioethics and psychiatry. Professor Pietsch serves as the law school Pro Bono faculty advisor, and supervises the University of Hawai′i Elder Law Program (UHELP). UHELP provides year-round direct legal services at the law school to socially and economically needy older persons. Professor Pietsch is a recipient of the Paul Lichterman Award for outstanding achievement in the advancement of legal services for older persons. In 2007 Professor Pietsch volunteered to serve as a Special Advisor to the Law and Order Task Force of the Multi-National Force-Iraq and subsequently served as a Rule of Law Advisor to the U.S. Embassy Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team and Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team in Iraq. More recently he served as a consultant for a US Pacific Command Rule of Law project in Timor Leste and a USAID-sponsored Access to Justice project back in Iraq. His Rule of Law work continues in Hawai′i as the faculty adviser to the law school's Hammurabi Legal Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
J. Lynn Acknowledgments 1. An Introduction to Culture and Its Influence on End
of
Life Decision
Making
K.L. Braun, J.H. Pietsch, & P.L. Blanchette PART ONE: THE MEDICAL, LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONTEXT OF DEATH AND DYING 2. Physical Aspects of Dying
J.A. Patterson Fago 3. Cognitive Changes That Affect Capacity and End
of
Life Decisions
R.A. Martino 4. Autonomy, Advance Directives, and the Patient Self
Determination Act
J.H. Pietsch & K.L. Braun 5. Ethical Considerations and Court Involvement in End
of
Life Decision
Making
M.B. Kapp PART TWO: ETHNIC PERSPECTIVES AND END
OF
LIFE DECISION
MAKING 6. Cultural and Religious Issues for African Americans
C.P. Mouton 7. Advance Directives and End
of
Life Care: The Hispanic Perspective
M.A. Talamantes, C.Gomez, & K.L. Braun 8. Cultural Issues in End
of
Life Decision Making among Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States
G.Yeo & H. Nikoyeda 9. End
of
Life Decision Making in American Indian and Alaska Native Cultures
N.W. Van Winkle PART THREE: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON END
OF
LIFE DECISION MAKING 10. Christian Perspectives on End
of
Life Decision Making: Faith in a Communtiy
M. Rowell 11. Catholic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Human Person and the Quest for Meaning
M.R. Alexander 12. Jewish Perspectives on End
of
Life Decision Making
W. Kavesh 13. Muslim Perspectives Regarding Death, Dying, and End
of
Life Decision Making
H.A. Hai & A. Husain 14. Buddhist Issues in End
of
Life Decision Making
R.Y. Nakasone PART FOUR: END
OF
LIFE ISSUES IN INSTITUTIONAL CULTURES AND FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS 15. Issues in End
of
Life Decision Making in the Hospital and Nursing Home Culture
C.A. Pierson 16. End
of
Life Issues in the Military Culture
P.W. Nishimoto & R.E. Newman 17. End
of
Life Issues in the HIV/AIDS Community
R. Ogden 18. End
of
Life Issues: A Disabilitites Perspective
T. Koch 19. Talking to Patients About Death and Dying: Improving Communication Across Cultures
S.L. Kogan, P.L. Blanchette, & K. Masaki Author Index Subject Index