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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| Summary: |
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 firs |
| 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 / Sigr |