| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 121 pages) |
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Palgrave pivot |
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Palgrave pivot.
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| Contents |
Broadening the boundaries of palliative medicine -- Total pain management and adjusted care: an evolving ideal -- Medical futility: the template for decision-making -- Reconstructing the principle of double effect -- Physician assistance at death or euthanasia? -- Shaping a compassionate response to end-stage illness -- Toward a good death: a socio-legal, ethical, and medical challenge |
| Summary |
"George P. Smith's Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions completes a Bioethics-Health Care epistemology begun in 1989, which addresses the specific issue of managing palliative care at the end-stage of life. Smith argues forcefully that in order to palliate the whole person (encompassing physical and psychological states), an ethic of adjusted care requires recognition of a fundamental right to avoid cruel and unusual suffering from terminal illness. Specifically, this book urges wider consideration and use of terminal sedation as efficacious medical care and as a reasonable procedure in order to safeguard a 'right' to a dignified death. The principle of medical futility is seen as a proper construct for implementing this process. The state legislative responses of California, Vermont, and Washington in enacting Death with Dignity legislation - allowing those with end-stage terminal illness to receive pharmacological assistance in ending their own lives - is held by Smith to be not only commendable, but the proper response for enlightened state action"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed November 11, 2015) |
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Terminal care -- Law and legislation.
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Terminally ill -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Hospice care.
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Hospitals -- Law and legislation.
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Palliative treatment -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Palliative treatment.
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Right to die.
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Terminally ill.
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Hospice Care
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Medical Futility
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Palliative Care
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Right to Die
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Terminally Ill
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terminally ill.
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Palliative medicine.
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Medical sociology.
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Ethical issues: euthanasia & right to die.
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Medicolegal issues.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Terminally ill
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Right to die
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Palliative treatment
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Hospice care
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Hospitals -- Law and legislation
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Terminal care -- Law and legislation
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Terminally ill -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Palliatieve behandeling.
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Euthanasie.
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Ethische aspecten.
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Palliative medicine.
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Medical sociology.
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Ethical issues & debates.
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Medicolegal issues.
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Health and Wellbeing.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137377395 |
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1137377399 |
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9781137377371 |
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1137377372 |
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9781299999947 |
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1299999948 |
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