| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages): illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro -- Notes on Contributors -- Marta Szabat, Jan Piasecki: A Word from the Editors -- Legal and Ethical Aspects of Patient Autonomy -- Martyna Łaszewska-Hellriegel: Deciding Life and Death: Euthanasia in Europe. Ethical and Regulatory Implications -- Yael Lavi: What is Wrong with the American Association of Suicidology Statement? -- Patrycja Zurzycka: Advance Care Planning: Health Care Agent -- Ethical Aspects of Patient Autonomy -- Valery Sokolchik: Respecting the Autonomyof the Dying Patient -- Marta Szabat: Parental Autonomy in the Light of Hope in Pediatric Palliative Care -- Paulina Hornik: The Role and Importance of Family Support in Oncological or Long-Term Illness -- Anthropology and Philosophyof Death and Dying -- Anna E. Kubiak: End-of-Life Issues in the Context of Biopolitics and Bioeconomy -- Maria Onyszkiewicz: A Phenomenological Approach to the Problem of Posthumous Harm -- Cultural Studies on Death and Dying -- Zygmunt Pucko, Joanna Przybek-Mita: Life in the Living Death of Frida Kahlo and its Reflection in the Painter's Work -- Łucja Lange: Cancertainment. How Entertainment May Help People with (and without) Cancer? -- Barbara Bojdo: Style and Ideological Changes in Depicting Death in European Art from Roman Antiquity to the Renaissance -- Index of names -- Subject index |
| Summary |
A catalogue of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any reflection on death and dying must be based |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Death.
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Death -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Death
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Death -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piasecki, Jan, editor.
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Szabat, Marta, editor.
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| ISBN |
8323372829 |
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9788323372820 |
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