Against Physician Assisted Suicide

A Palliative Care Perspective

David Jeffrey, Fraser MacFarlane (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2008
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-84619-186-2 (ISBN)

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The majority of doctors and nurses involved in specialist palliative care reject the legalisation of physician assisted suicide (PAS). This book explores the reasons why the healthcare professionals who have the most experience of caring for dying patients should object to a change in the law. Debate about euthanasia and PAS often arises in response to a well publicised tragic case of unrelieved suffering. Such heart rending stories do not reflect the fact that the majority of people dying have a dignified death. There is a marked disparity between medical intuitions and the philosophers' arguments about euthanasia and PAS. It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient and to protect them from harm. The perspective of those who are privileged to care for thousands of dying patients and their families should inform the debate about PAS.This book will enable those who are not working within palliative care to gain an insight into the scope of this speciality and to understand why legalisation of PAS should be resisted to maintain and improve care of dying patients.

David Jeffrey, Fraser Macfarlane

Background to the debate. The language of the debate. The problem of unrelieved suffering. Palliative care. Ethical arguments. Legislation in UK. Learning from experience. Physician assisted suicide in Clinical Practice. The patient’s story. Positive approaches to care of the dying.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.10.2008
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	166 x 234 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84619-186-6 / 1846191866
ISBN-13	978-1-84619-186-2 / 9781846191862
Zustand	Neuware