Ethics in palliative care : a comlete guide / Robert C. Macauley.
By: Macauley, Robert C [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2018Description: 548 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199313945 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Palliative Care -- ethicsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R726 .M238 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000014105 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.