Ethics in Palliative Care
Ethics in Palliative Care

Author: Robert C. Macauley MD

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0190652330

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No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when patients refuse treatments likely to be beneficial, or demand treatments not likely to be? Who makes medical decisions for patients who are too ill to decide for themselves? Do patients have the "right to die" (and, if so, what exactly does that mean)? In this volume noted palliative care physician and bioethicist Robert C. Macauley addresses a broad range of issues from historical, legal, clinical, and ethical perspectives. Clinically nuanced and philosophically rigorous, Ethics in Palliative Care analyzes hot-button subjects like physician assisted dying and euthanasia, as well as often overlooked topics such as pediatric palliative care, organ donation, palliative care research, and moral distress. Drawing on real cases yet written in non-technical language, this complete guide will appeal to both medical professionals and lay readers.

A Palliative Ethic of Care
A Palliative Ethic of Care

Author: Joseph Fins

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780763732929

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"An innovative approach to caring for the terminally ill patient, A palliative ethic of care provides deeper insights into why end-of-life care is so challenging and suggests how to improve the care of the dying" -- Back cover.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Care

Author: Nessa Coyle

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 019025808X

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Effective palliative care that rests on a sound ethical foundation requires ongoing discussions about patient and family values and preferences. This is especially important when addressing care at end-of-life including artificial nutrition and hydration, withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies and palliative sedation as well as requests for assistance in hastening death. The eighth volume in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care, provides an overview of critical communication skills and formal organizational mechanisms, such as ethics committees and interdisciplinary rounds, required for decisions in ethical dilemmas which respect diversity in the views of colleagues, as well as patients. The content of the concise, clinically focused volumes in the HPNA Palliative Nursing Manuals series is one resource for nurses preparing for specialty certification exams and provides a quick-reference in daily practice.

Palliative Care and Ethics
Palliative Care and Ethics

Author: Timothy E. Quill

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0199316678

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The practice of palliative care and hospice is filled with overt and sometimes covert ethical challenges. These challenges are addressed by leading international palliative care and hospice scholars under three main domains: care delivery systems; addressing the many dimensions of suffering; and difficult decisions near the end of life.

Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions

Author: G. Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1137377399

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Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment.

Hospice Ethics
Hospice Ethics

Author: Timothy W. Kirk

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0199943834

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This book is the first comprehensive collection devoted to analyzing distinctive ethical issues arising in the delivery of hospice care and designed to promote best ethical practices for hospice care professionals and organizations in the United States.

Partners in Palliative Care
Partners in Palliative Care

Author: Mary Beth Morrissey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1317966929

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The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a membership of over 50 community-based organizations and volunteers dedicated to improving care of the seriously ill through education, research and advocacy. The Collaborative bridges policy, research and practice in its initiatives and vision for the future. Partners in Palliative Care examines specific areas of concern that the Collaborative has addressed in its education programs and advocacy, as well as the collaborative processes that have been so successful in building community assets. Areas of concentration have been diverse and include advance care planning, relational communication paradigms, community capacity building, the role of culture and spirituality in palliative care, the meaning of pain and suffering for seriously ill individuals, and the ethics of health care costs in palliative and end-of-life systems of care. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care.

Ethics and Palliative Care
Ethics and Palliative Care

Author: Dr. Paddy Stone

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781857758467

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Part one of this book provides an explanation of ethical theory, looks at difficult decisions at the end of life, questions autonomy and rights and covers the use of sedation at the end of life, while part two presents case histories and clinical scenarios.

Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease
Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease

Author: Ruth B. Purtilo

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780801878701

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"All of us working in palliative care would benefit from reading this book as it exposes assumptions derived from the treatment mostly of cancer patients and encourages us to review our thoughts on the intrinsic value of all life, however opaque." -- Palliative Medicine.

Ethical Issues in Palliative Care
Ethical Issues in Palliative Care

Author: Pat A. Webb

Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781857758252

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Initial definitions and some theoretical input leads on to a practice-based text which will enable people from a variety of professions to discuss and debate issues familiar to their practice.