The Ethics of Terminal Care: Orchestrating the End of Life / Edition 1

by Erich E.H. Loewy

Overview

Today we have more control over how we live and how we die than we ever had before. This fact has produced many ethical problems. While much about life is biologically determined, much else is determined by the social circumstances surrounding it. Unfortunately, little energy is spent dealing with the social and psychological factors within which the medical/biological factors are imbedded. In this volume the authors examine some of the medical social and psychological conditions which affect the way we die.

Important topics covered include attitudes toward death; suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia; hospice and pain management. This volume will be of interest to all who work with terminally ill patients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048140022
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/19/2010
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	181
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Dying, Death and Attitudes.- Questions, Methods and the Problem of Autonomy.- The Concept of Orchestrating Death.- Sudden Death and the End of Life.- Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.- Hospice and the End of Life.- Challenges for Tomorrow: Where Do We Go from Here?.