The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life

Herausgeber: Youngner, Stuart J; Arnold, Robert M

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. The chapters examine a range of ethical topics related to death, dying, palliative care and decision-making at the end of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780199974412
• ISBN-10: 0199974411
• Artikelnr.: 47865611

Autorenporträt

Stuart J. Youngner is the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics and Chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has written and spoken extensively about definitions of death, organ and tissue transplantation, end-of-life decisions, and clinical ethics consultation. Robert M. Arnold, MD is Professor of Medicine, UPMC Montefiore Hospital

Inhaltsangabe

* Background: The Smell of Chlorine: Coming to Terms with Death (Stuart
J. Youngner and Robert M. Arnold)
* Section I: Clinical and Legal Issues
* 1. Legal Issues in Death and Dying: How Rights and Autonomy Have
Shaped Clinical Practice (Alan Meisel)
* 2. "So what do you want us to do?" Patient's Rights, Unintended
Consequences, and the Surrogate's Role (Mark Aulisio)
* 3. Death at the Beginning: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Renee D.
Boss)
* 4. Dying Children and the Kindness of Strangers (John D. Lantos)
* 5. Medical Futility and Physician Power (Douglas White, Thaddeus
Pope)
* 6. Conscientious Objection (Mark R. Wicclair)
* 7. Continuous Sedation at the End of Life (Sigrid Stercks, Kasper
Raus)
* 8. Fluids and Nutrition (Daniel Salmasy)
* 9. Disorders of Consciousness and Neuro-Palliative Care: Towards an
Expanded Scope of Practice for the Field (Joseph Fins and Maria G.
Master)
* 10. Ethical Issues in Prognosis and Prognostication (Alexander K.
Smith, Paul Glare)
* Section II: Theoretical, Cultural, and Psychosocial Issues
* 11. The Nature of Suffering (Eric J. Cassell)
* 12. On Our Difficulties Speaking To and About the Dying (David
Barnard)
* 13. The Cost of Dying among the Elderly in the United States: Ethical
Issues (Susannah Rose and Janelle Highland)
* 14. Death, Dying and the Disabled (Anita Silvers, Leslie Francis)
* 15. The Effect of Social Media on End-of-Life Decision Making
(Jessica Berg)
* 16. Cultural Factors (Megan Crowley-Matoka)
* 17. Ethnicity as a Factor (Kimberly S. Johnson, Ramona L. Rhodes)
* 18. Reframing Care in End-of-Life Care: Helpful Themes from a
Catholic-Christian Understanding of Death (Michael McCarthy, Mark
Kuczewski)
* Section III: Physician-Assisted Death
* 19. Physician-Assisted Death in the Netherlands (Gerrit Kimsma).
* 20. The Case Against Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (Ira
Byock)
* 21. Goodbye Thomas: The Case for Physician-Assisted Dying (Margaret
P. Battin)
* 22. Depression and the Desire to Die Near the End of Life (Nathan
Fairman, Scott A. Irwin)
* Section IV: The Emergence of Palliative Care and Hospice
* 23. Hospice and Palliative Care: Developments, Differences and
Challenges (David Clark)
* 24. Potential Perils to the Promise of Specialty Palliative Care
(Robert Arnold)
* 25. The Social Marketing of Palliative Care in Public Policy (Rolfe
Sean Morrison, Bridget Tracy)
* 26. Talking and Working with Dying Patients: True Grief and Loss
(Lisa Humphrey)