End of Life Choices - Randall, Fiona; Downie, R. S.
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Developments are taking place in palliative care in which 'patient choice' has become a central idea, and patients have an enlarged idea of their best interests. This book creates debate among all those involved in care of the terminally ill, including specialists, policy makers, researchers and ethicists.
Palliative care is undergoing a period of rapid change in perceptible ways through legislation, policy, and clinical guidelines, but also in philosophy and ethics. End of Life Choices: Consensus and Controversies examines a wide range of issues, themes, and contradictions prevalent in…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Developments are taking place in palliative care in which 'patient choice' has become a central idea, and patients have an enlarged idea of their best interests. This book creates debate among all those involved in care of the terminally ill, including specialists, policy makers, researchers and ethicists.
Palliative care is undergoing a period of rapid change in perceptible ways through legislation, policy, and clinical guidelines, but also in philosophy and ethics. End of Life Choices: Consensus and Controversies examines a wide range of issues, themes, and contradictions prevalent in modern palliative/end of life care. These include: choice, assisted suicide, roles and values, responsibility, rights, Advance Care Plans, withdrawal and withholding of treatment, advocacy, the Mental Capacity Act, best interests, definitions, and the new Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy.
Autorenporträt
Having trained in palliative medicine at St Christopher's Hospice, London, under the leadership of Dame Cicely Saunders, Fiona Randall has been a consultant in palliative medicine since 1982. She has a special interest and academic background in health care ethics, and a philosophy PhD. Publications include 'Palliative Care Ethics' and 'The Philosophy of Palliative Care: critique and reconstruction', both Oxford University Press. She has served on the BMA Ethics Committee, and represented the Association for Palliative Medicine in consultations on the Mental Capacity Act and its Code of Practice. She has been involved in producing national guidance on advance care planning, and has given evidence to two House of Lords Select Committees on euthanasia. She serves on her Acute Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee, and teaches nationally and internationally on ethical issues in end of life care. Robin Downie was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Before moving into university teaching he was a Russian interpreter in the Army. He has been a member of Government and professional committees concerned with ethical issues, such as the BMA Ethics Committee and Government Committees on xenotransplantation and genetics. In addition to teaching and writing on topics in moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of science he was involved in teaching ethics to undergraduate and postgraduate medical, dental and nursing students and practitioners. Along with Sir Kenneth Calman (formerly Chief Medical Officer, UK) he began the movement now known as the 'medical humanities' i.e. the use of literature and other arts and humanities in the education of health care professionals. In particular, this way of teaching bioethics takes professionals beyond regulations, widens their perceptions of practice, and affects attitudes to patients.