Aging: Decisions at the End of Life
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5898-0 (ISBN)
Quality of Life.- How we think (deeply but with limits) about quality of life: The necessity of wisdom for aging.- Ethics and quality of life in the elderly.- Palliative Care.- Palliative care: A weak link in the chain of civilized life.- Assisted Death.- Assisted death in the Netherlands and its relationship with age.- Why euthanasia should not be legalized: A reflection on the Dutch experiment.- Managing death: End-of-life charades and decisions.- Challenges and dilemmas in the “aging and euthanasia” policy cocktail.- Suicide.- End-of-life decisions in terminal illness: A psychiatric perspective.- Suicide: Implications for an aging society.- Research Ethics.- Research on elderly subjects: Striking the right balance.- Community consent for research on the impaired elderly.- Regulating ethical research involving cognitively impaired elderly subjects: Canada as a case study.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.12.2010 |
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Reihe/Serie | "International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine " ; 12 |
Zusatzinfo | XIV, 264 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 210 x 279 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Medizin / Pharmazie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 90-481-5898-2 / 9048158982 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-5898-0 / 9789048158980 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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