Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Washington, DC : Hospice Foundation of America
ISBN
1893349144 / 9781893349148
Local notes
CONTENTS:
Book: 1. Principles of bioethics. From rights to relationships: the ecological turn in ethics near the end of life -- Sticking with the sick: access to palliative care and hospice as an issue of justice. 2. Ethical dilemmas in palliative and hospice care. Limits to confidentiality: ethical issues in end-of-life care -- Ethical issues in communication at the end of life: a view from the trenches -- Surrogate decision making: the surrogate's value -- Artificial nutrition and hydration -- Pain management: when barriers exist -- palliative sedation and the rule of double effect -- Physician-assisted suicide, aid in dying, and hospice. 3. Family and staff: ethical concerns. What next? A case study of transfer from hospice to nursing home -- Ethical conflicts: hospice and nursing home care -- Unjust demands for futile treatment: when treatment should cease -- When family is an issue -- Ethical dilemmas when the patient is an infant: uncertainty and futility -- Whose suffering is it? An ethical reflection on the decline and death of a child -- Informed decision making and the adolescent patient -- Does dementia change the equation? Advance directives and dementia -- Ethics, end-of-life decisions, and grief.
Book: 1. Principles of bioethics. From rights to relationships: the ecological turn in ethics near the end of life -- Sticking with the sick: access to palliative care and hospice as an issue of justice. 2. Ethical dilemmas in palliative and hospice care. Limits to confidentiality: ethical issues in end-of-life care -- Ethical issues in communication at the end of life: a view from the trenches -- Surrogate decision making: the surrogate's value -- Artificial nutrition and hydration -- Pain management: when barriers exist -- palliative sedation and the rule of double effect -- Physician-assisted suicide, aid in dying, and hospice. 3. Family and staff: ethical concerns. What next? A case study of transfer from hospice to nursing home -- Ethical conflicts: hospice and nursing home care -- Unjust demands for futile treatment: when treatment should cease -- When family is an issue -- Ethical dilemmas when the patient is an infant: uncertainty and futility -- Whose suffering is it? An ethical reflection on the decline and death of a child -- Informed decision making and the adolescent patient -- Does dementia change the equation? Advance directives and dementia -- Ethics, end-of-life decisions, and grief.