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The ethics of terminal care : orchestrating the end of life / Erich H. Loewy and Roberta Springer Loewy.

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Today we have more control over how we live and how we die than we ever had before. This fact has produced many ethical problems. While much about life is biologically determined, much else is determined by the social circumstances surrounding it. Unfortunately, little energy is spent dealing with t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Loewy, Erich H.
Other Authors: Loewy, Roberta Springer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ©2002.
Subjects:
Terminal care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Terminal care.
Hospice care.
Table of Contents:
  • Dying, Death and Attitudes
  • The Social Context in America Today
  • What We Think Dying and Being Dead is Like
  • Physicians' Obligations
  • The Centrality of Suffering
  • Questions, Methods and the Problem of Autonomy
  • A Brief Word about Theory
  • Concepts of Life and Art
  • Identified and Unidentified Lives at the End of Life
  • Autonomy, Competency and Decisional Capacity
  • Extended Autonomy and Advance Directives
  • The Questions we Need to Ask, the Method we Might Use
  • Judging According to the Patient's Interests and Setting Other Interests Aside--Is that Possible?
  • Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants
  • The Concept of Orchestrating Death
  • Conceptual, Linguistic and Educational Problems
  • Relationships and talking with patients
  • The Score and the Music
  • Conductors
  • Players
  • The Concert Hall
  • Conflicts
  • Putting It all Together
  • Sudden Death and the End of Life
  • Orchestration in Situations of Sudden or Rapid Death
  • Surrogates
  • Futility
  • Autopsy
  • Organ Donation
  • Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
  • Suicide and Letting Die
  • Terminal Sedation and Self-Starvation
  • Harming Patients
  • Separate Questions in the Euthanasia Debate
  • Holocausts, Genocides and What Can Be Learned
  • Hospice and the End of Life
  • Hospice: Philosophical Ideals and Practical Realities
  • The Patient's "Good," the "Good" Patient and the Pitfalls of Orchestrating Clinical Expertise
  • Challenges for Tomorrow: Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Educating Health Care Professionals.

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