Death in the clinic / edited by Lynn A. Jansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jansen, Lynn A., 1963-

Series:

Practicing bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terminal care--Moral and ethical aspects.

Terminal care.

Death--Moral and ethical aspects.

Death.

Terminal Care--ethics.

Attitude to Death.

Bioethical Issues.

Terminally Ill--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Terminal Care--ethics.

Attitude to Death.

Bioethical Issues.

Terminally Ill--psychology.

Physical Description:

vii, 164 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2006]

Summary:

Despite the best efforts of medical ethicists over the past quarter-century, the ethical challenges surrounding dying and death in the clinical setting remain largely unresolved, and little sustained attention has been paid to how thinking about death relates to and affects clinical practice. The reality is that people die, and that dying patients are not people for whom nothing can be done. Death in the Clinic provides medical students, residents, and educators a framework within which to explore and address this reality, while existential and philosophical questions about death recommend the book to chaplains, social workers, palliative care clinicians, nurses, and clinical ethicists. Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle.

Contents:

Some reflections on whether death is bad / David J. Mayo

Defining death / James L. Bernat

Against the right to die / J. David Velleman

The skull at the banquet / David Barnard

Influence of mental illness on decision making at the end of life / Linda Ganzini and Elizabeth R. Goy

Creative adaptation in aging and dying / Celia Berdes and Linda Emanuel

Rage, rage against the dying light / John Paris, Michael D. Schreiber, and Robert Fogerty

Training on newly deceased patients / Mark R. Wicclair.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742535096

074253510X

OCLC:

61459363