Robert C MacAuley

Ethics in Palliative Care

A Complete Guide

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive analysis of ethical topics in palliative care, combining clinical experience and philosophical rigor. A broad array of topics are explored from historical, legal, clinical, and ethical perspectives, offering both the seasoned clinician and interested lay reader a thorough examination of the complex ethical issues facing patients suffering from life-threatening illness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1032g
• ISBN-13: 9780199313945
• ISBN-10: 0199313946
• Artikelnr.: 50991593

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Macauley is Cambia Health Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care at Oregon Health and Science University. He taught at the University of Vermont College of Medicine for fifteen years, where he directed the Department of Clinical Ethics as well as the Pediatric Advanced Care Team.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Section I: Overview and introduction
Chapter 1: Ethics and palliative care
Chapter 2: Overview of ethical approaches
Section II: Ethical issues in determining the plan of care
Chapter 3: Advance care planning and surrogate decision making
Chapter 4: Specific ethical issues at the end of life
Section III: Death and dying
Chapter 5: The "right to die"
Chapter 6: Forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment
Chapter 7: Pain and symptom management at the end of life
Chapter 8: Physician Assisted Dying
Chapter 9: Palliative sedation
Section IV: Pediatric ethics and palliative care
Chapter 10: Overview of pediatric ethics and palliative care
Chapter 11: Ethics of prenatal palliative care
Chapter 12: Ethics of neonatal palliative care
Chapter 13: Ethics of child and adolescent palliative care
Section V: Other topics
Chapter 14: Requests for non-beneficial treatment
Chapter 15: Neuro-palliative care
Chapter 16: Death and organ donation
Chapter 17: Research in palliative care
Chapter 18: Clinical practice of palliative care
Chapter 19: Final thoughts
Frequently used abbreviations
Glossary