Thứ Bảy, 29 tháng 11, 2014

Palliative Care and Ethics - Difficult Decisions Near the Very End of Life


Earlier this year, Oxford University Press released Palliative Care and Ethics, edited by Timothy E. Quill
and Franklin G. Miller.  The seven chapters in section IV focus on "
Difficult Decisions Near the Very End of Life."





Section I: Introduction
and Overview


Chapter 1: Introduction (Quill and Miller)

Chapter 2: Hospice (Charles von Gunten)

Chapter 3: Palliative Care (Susan D. Block)





Section II. Ethical
Challenges within Current Systems of Care


Chapter 4: Emerging Complexities in Pediatric
Palliative Care (Renee Boss and Nancy Hutton)


Chapter 5: Patient-Centered Ethos in an Era of
Cost Control: Palliative Care and Healthcare Reform (Diane E. Meier and Emily
Warner)


Chapter 6: Palliative Care, Ethics and
Interprofessional Teams (Sally A. Norton, Deborah Waldrop, and Robert Gramling)





Section III. Addressing Dimensions of Suffering  


Chapter 7: Pain Relief and Palliative Care
(Nathan Cherny)



Chapter 8: Management of Dyspnea (Thomas W.
LeBlanc, David C. Currow, Jane L. Phillips, and Amy Abernethy)


Chapter 9: Diagnosis and Treatment of Delirium
(Maxine De la Cruz and Eduardo Bruera)


Chapter 10: Psychosocial and Psychiatric
Suffering (Yesne Alici, Kanan Modhwadia, William S. Breitbart)


Chapter 11: Capacity and Shared Decision-Making
in Serious Illness (Ronald M. Epstein and Vikki Entwistle)






Section IV. Difficult
Decisions Near the Very End of Life


Chapter 12: Withholding and Withdrawing
Life-Sustaining Treatments (Robert D. Truog)


Chapter 13: Medical Futility: Content in the
Context of Care (Peggy Determeyer and Howard Brody )


Chapter 14: Palliative Sedation (J. Andrew
Billings)


Chapter 15: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and
Drinking (Emily Rubin and James L. Bernat)


Chapter 16: Physician Assisted Death (Timothy E.
Quill and Franklin Miller)

Chapter 17a: Lessons from Legalized Physician Assisted
Death in Oregon and Washington: (Linda Ganzini)


Chapter 17b: Physician Assisted Death in Western Europe:
The Legal and Empirical Situation (Heleen Weyers)




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