Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of ethics at the end of life /
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. In this period, technology has radically changed medical practices and the way we die as structures of power have been reshaped by the right...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Oxford handbooks]
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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. In this period, technology has radically changed medical practices and the way we die as structures of power have been reshaped by the rights claims of African Americans, women, gays, students, and, most relevant here, patients. Respecting patients' values has been recognized as the essential moral component of clinical decision-making. Technology's promise has been seen to have a dark side: it prolongs the dying process. For the first time in history, human beings have the ability control the timing of death. With this ability comes a responsibility that is awesome and inescapable. How we understand and manage this responsibility is the theme of this volume. |
| Item Description: | Series from book jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199974412 0199974411 |
| Index Number: | R726 |
| CLC: | R48-62 |
| Call Number: | R48-62/O984-1 |
| Contents: | Section I: Clinical and Legal Issues -- Legal issues in death and dying : how rights and autonomy have shaped clinical practice / Alan Meisel -- "So what do you want us to do?" Patients' rights, unintended consequences, and the surrogate's role / Mark P. Aulisio -- Death at the beginning : the neonatal intensive care unit / Renee D. Boss -- Dying children and the kindness of strangers / John D. Lantos -- Medical futility and potentially inappropriate treatment/ Douglas B. White and Thaddeus M. Pope -- Conscientious objection / Mark R. Wicclair -- Continuous sedation at the end of life / Sigrid Sterckx and Kasper Raus -- The ethics of medically assisted nutrition and hydration at the end of life : separating the wheat from the chaff / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- Disorders of consciousness and neuro-palliative care : toward an expanded scope of practice for the field / Joseph J. Fins and Maria G. Master -- Ethical issues in prognosis and prognostication / Alexander K. Smith and Paul Glare -- Section II: Theoretical, Cultural, and Psychosocial Issues -- The smell of chlorine : coming to terms with death / Stuart J. Youngner -- Talking and walking with dying patients : true grief and loss / Lisa Humphrey -- The nature of suffering / Eric J. Cassell -- On our difficulties speaking to and about the dying / David Barnard -- The cost of dying among the elderly in the United States : ethical issues / Susannah L. Rose and Janelle Highland -- Death, dying and the disabled / Anita Silvers, Leslie P. Francis -- The effect of social media on end-of-life decision making / Jessica Berg -- Cultural factors / Megan Crowley-Matoka -- Ethnicity as a factor / Kimberly S. Johnson and Ramona L. Rhodes -- Reframing care in end-of-life care : helpful themes from a Catholic-Christian understanding of death / Michael McCarthy and Mark Kuczewski -- Section III: Physician-Assisted Death -- Physician-assisted death in the Netherlands / Gerrit Kimsma -- The case against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia / Ira Byock -- Goodbye Thomas : the case for physician-assisted dying / Margaret P. Battin -- Depression and the desire to die near the end of life / Nathan Fairman and Scott A. Irwin -- Section IV: The Emergence of Palliative Care and Hospice -- Hospice and palliative care : developments, differences and challenges / David Clark -- Potential perils to the promise of specialty palliative care / Robert M. Arnold -- Marketing palliative care / Bridget Tracy and Rolfe Sean Morrison. |