Description
No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when patients refuse treatments likely to be beneficial, or demand treatments not likely to be? Who makes medical decisions for patients who are too ill to decide for themselves? Do patients have the "right to die" (and, if so, what exactly does that mean)?In this volume noted palliative care physician and bioethicist Robert C. Macauley addresses a broad range of issues from historical, legal, clinical, and ethical perspectives. Clinically nuanced and philosophically rigorous, Ethics in Palliative Care analyzes hot-button subjects like physician assisted dying and euthanasia, as well as often overlooked topics such as pediatric palliative care, organ donation, palliative care research, and moral distress. Drawing on real cases yet written in non-technical language, this complete guide will appeal to both medical professionals and lay readers.
Table of Contents
PrefaceSection I: Overview and introductionChapter 1: Ethics and palliative careChapter 2: Overview of ethical approachesSection II: Ethical issues in determining the plan of care Chapter 3: Advance care planning and surrogate decision makingChapter 4: Specific ethical issues at the end of lifeSection III: Death and dyingChapter 5: The "right to die"Chapter 6: Forgoing life-sustaining medical treatmentChapter 7: Pain and symptom management at the end of lifeChapter 8: Physician Assisted DyingChapter 9: Palliative sedationSection IV: Pediatric ethics and palliative careChapter 10: Overview of pediatric ethics and palliative careChapter 11: Ethics of prenatal palliative careChapter 12: Ethics of neonatal palliative careChapter 13: Ethics of child and adolescent palliative careSection V: Other topicsChapter 14: Requests for non-beneficial treatmentChapter 15: Neuro-palliative careChapter 16: Death and organ donationChapter 17: Research in palliative careChapter 18: Clinical practice of palliative careChapter 19: Final thoughtsFrequently used abbreviationsGlossary
