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Decision making near the end of life : issues, developments, and future directions / edited by James L. Werth, Jr. and Dean Blevins.
Holman Biotech Commons R726.8 .D435 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Series in death, dying, and bereavement
- The series in death, dying, and bereavement
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care--Decision making.
- Terminal care.
- Terminal Care--ethics.
- United States.
- Decision Making.
- Terminally Ill.
- Medical Subjects:
- Terminal Care--ethics.
- United States.
- Decision Making.
- Terminally Ill.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2009]
- Contents:
- Adolescent end-of-life decision-making: family-centered advance care planning / Richard and Maureen E. Lyon
- The grip of pain / Jonathan D. Spannhake
- Decision making in the absence of advance directives: a personal story of letting go / Laura Crow
- A hastened death / Nicola G. Raye
- How people die in the United States / Marilyn J. Field
- The media and end-of-life choices and decisions / Marilyn Webb
- Three female faces: the law of end-of-life decision making in America / Kathy L. Cerminara
- End-of-life choices / Phillip M. Kleepsies, Pamela J. Miller, and Thomas A. Preston
- Decision making in palliative care / Victor T. Chang and Nethra Sambamoorthi
- Communication related to end-of-life care and decisions / Ellen L. Csikai
- Dying in institutions / Suzanne S. Prevost and J. Brandon Wallace
- What would Terri want?: advance directives and the psychological challenges of surrogate decision making / Peter H. Ditto
- The possible impact of mental health issues on end-of-life decision making / James L. Werth, Jr.
- Family end-of-life decision making / Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio
- Religious and spiritual perspectives on life-threatening illness, dying, and death / Kenneth J. Doka
- Culture, individual diversity, and end-of-life decisions / Bert Hayslip Jr. ... [et al.]
- Decisions by and for adults with questionnable mental capacity: focus on dementia / Ladislav Volicier
- Pediatric patient-oriented problem-solving near the end of life / Chris Feudtner and Anne E. Kazak.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415954488
- 0415954487
- OCLC:
- 227205728
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