Samuel H. Lipuma, Joseph P. Demarco

The Dying Experience

Expanding Options for Dying and Suffering Patients

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines when it is morally appropriate for medical intervention to hasten the dying process. The authors' overriding goal is to humanize the dying process by expanding patient centered autonomous control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781786608581
• ISBN-10: 1786608588
• Artikelnr.: 55990953

Autorenporträt

Samuel H. LiPuma is an associate professor of philosophy at Cuyahoga Community where he has taught logic since 1991. He also taught logic at several northeast Ohio institutions, including Kent State University, Notre Dame College, and Lakeland Community College, among others. Joseph P. DeMarco is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Cleveland State University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Death and Dying: History and Contemporary Issues
1. A Brief History of Death and Dying
2. Medical and Technological Issues regarding Death and Dying
3. Brain Death
4. Death and Dying: International Perspectives
5. What is a good death?
6. Physician and Patient Discussions of Death and Dying
Part II: Hospice and Palliative Care
7. The Hospice and Palliative Care Movements
8. Critical Analysis of the Hospice and Palliative Care Movements
Part III: On Hastening Death: Old and New Perspectives
10. New Perspectives: Expanding the Options for Hastening Death
11. Special Cases of Dementia and Degenerative diseases
12. Drawing the line
13. Concluding remarks