Speaking for the dying : life-and-death decisions in intensive care / Susan P. Shapiro.
By: Shapiro, Susan P [author.].
Series: Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2019Description: 336 p: 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226615608 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226615745 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Terminal care -- Decision making | Terminal care -- Decision making -- Case studies | Advance directives (Medical care) | Advance directives (Medical care) -- Psychological aspects | Terminally ill -- Civil rights | Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects | Medical ethics | Intensive care unitsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R726.8 .S54 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015878 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Holding life and death in their hands -- Is this for me? -- The intensive care unit. Personnel ; Rhythms ; Economics -- Actors. Patients ; Friends, family, and significant others ; Health care professionals -- Decisions. Informed consent ; Venues ; Affect ; Conflict -- Prognosis. Evidence ; Timing ; Mixed messages ; Negotiation ; Accuracy ; Prognostic framing -- Decision-making scripts. The legal script ; Cognitive scripts ; Conflicts of interest ; Law at the bedside -- Improvisation: decisions in the real world. The patient should decide ; Reprising patient instructions ; Standing in the patient's shoes ; Beneficence ; It's God's decision ; What we want ; Denial, opting out -- Making a difference? The role of physicians ; Opting for a trajectory ; Outcomes ; I thought the law would take care of this ; Does any of this matter? -- The end. Implications ; Before it's too late ; When it's too late ; When "this" happens to me.