Palliative Care Ethics

A Companion for All Specialties

Fiona Randall, Robin Downie (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

1999 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-263068-1 (ISBN)

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A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. Divided into tow parts, it introduces Divided into two parts, it introduces and explains clinical decision-making processes about which there is broad consensus, in line with guidance documents issued by WHO, BMA, GMC, and similar bodies. The changing political and social context where 'patient choice' has become a central idea, and the broadened scope of patients' best interests, have added to the complexity of decision-making in end of life care. The authors discuss issues widely encountered by GPs, nurses, and hospital clinicians. These include patient choice, consent, life-prolonging treatment, and symptom relief including sedation. Part tow explores the more controversial current end of life care initiatives, such as advance care planning, preferred place of care and death, euthanasia and assisted suicide, extended ideas of 'best interests', and the view that there are therapeutic duties to the relatives of patients. Throughout their discussion the authors draw attention to loose ends and contradictions in some of the proposals. Examining the current policy of consumerist choice, they reject its place in the health service, proposing a realistic, fair, humane and widely adoptable system of end of life care.

As knowledge of ethical theories is required in training courses, and the vocabulary of ethical theory is widespread in current discussions, a substantial appendix on ethical theories and terms is available online.

Written by the same authors as The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and reconstruction, which won the Medical Journalists' Association Specalist Book Award 2007, this new new book for non-specialists is essential reading for all health care professionals involved in providing end of life care.

Ethics and aims in palliative care ; The patient-carer relationship ; The relative-professional relationship ; Teamwork ; Process of clinical decision making ; Giving information ; Confidentiality ; Clinical treatment decisions ; Other management decisions ; Emotional care ; Research ; Resource allocation ; Reply to critics ; Quality of Life and value of life

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.6.1999
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 233 mm
Gewicht	479 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-19-263068-7 / 0192630687
ISBN-13	978-0-19-263068-1 / 9780192630681
Zustand	Neuware