Robert C. Macauley: Ethics in Palliative Care

Cover: 9780199313945 | Ethics in Palliative Care | A Complete Guide | Robert C. Macauley

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199313945
ISBN-10:	0199313946
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Macauley, Robert C.
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	254 x 178 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert C. Macauley
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.04.2018
Gewicht:	1,058 kg