عنوان

Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /

(Number (ISBN

1137379154

(Number (ISBN

9781137379153

Erroneous ISBN

9781137377371 (EPUB)

Erroneous ISBN

9781137377395 (PDF)

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Title Proper

Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

George P. Smith, II

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 121 p. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Palgrave pivot

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116) and index

Text of Note

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

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Text of Note

"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

Hospice care

Hospitals-- Law and legislation

Palliative treatment-- Legal status, laws, etc

Terminal care-- Law and legislation

Terminally ill-- Legal status, laws, etc

Hospice Care

Medical Futility

Palliative Care

Right to Die

Terminally Ill

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Edition

Class number

Book number

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Class number

Smith, George P.,II, (George Patrick),1939-

Date of Transaction

20140715152720.0

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