Ethics in palliative care

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Macauley, Robert C. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780190652333
9780190652357
9780190652364
9780190652340
9780199313945
Physical Description1 online zdroj.

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Table of Contents:
  • Ethics and palliative care
  • Overview of ethical approaches
  • Advance care planning and surrogate decision making
  • Specific ethical issues at the end of life
  • The "right to die"
  • Forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment
  • Pain and symptom management at the end of life
  • Physician assisted death
  • Palliative sedation
  • Overview of pediatric ethics and palliative care
  • Ethics of prenatal palliative care
  • Neonatal
  • Ethics of child and adolescent palliative care
  • Requests for non-beneficial treatment
  • Neuro-palliative care
  • Death and organ donation
  • Research in palliative care
  • Final thoughts.