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Ethics in palliative care / Robert C. Macauley.
Holman Biotech Commons R726.8 .M224 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macauley, Robert C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palliative treatment--Ethics.
- Palliative treatment.
- Assisted suicide--Ethics.
- Assisted suicide.
- Palliative Care--ethics.
- Ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Palliative Care--ethics.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 548 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Ethics and palliative care
- Overview of ethical approaches
- Advance care planning and surrogate decision making
- Specific ethical issues at the end of life
- The "right to die"
- Forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment
- Pain and symptom management at the end of life
- Physician assisted death
- Palliative sedation
- Overview of pediatric ethics and palliative care
- Ethics of prenatal palliative care
- Neonatal
- Ethics of child and adolescent palliative care
- Requests for non-beneficial treatment
- Neuro-palliative care
- Death and organ donation
- Research in palliative care
- Final thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Macauley, Robert C. Ethics in palliative care.
- ISBN:
- 9780199313945
- 0199313946
- OCLC:
- 1005361915
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