Death in the Clinic

Herausgeber: Jansen, Lynn A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Produktdetails

• Practicing Bioethics
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780742535091
• ISBN-10: 0742535096
• Artikelnr.: 22149914

Autorenporträt

Lynn A. Jansen is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Medicine, New York Medical College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Public Meaning of Death Chapter 3 Some
Reflections on Whether Death is Bad Chapter 4 Defining Death Part 5 Facing
Death in the Clinic Chapter 6 Against the Right to Die Chapter 7 The Skull
at the Banquet Chapter 8 Influence of Mental Illnes on Decision-Making at
the End of Life Chapter 9 Creative Adaptation in Aging and Dying: Ethical
Imperative or Impossible Dream? Chapter 10 Rage, Rage Against the Dying of
the Light: Not a Metaphor for End-of-Life-Care Chapter 11 After Death:
Respect and Cultural Norms Chapter 12 Training on Newly Deceased Patients:
An Ethical Analysis Chapter 13 Appendix: Abstracts of the Chapters Chapter
14 Index Chapter 15 About the Contributors