Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions [electronic resource] /
Smith, G.author.
Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Broadening the Boundaries of Palliative Medicine                                                         ""; ""2 Total Pain Management and Adjusted Care An Evolving Ideal                                                                  ""; ""3 Medical Futility: The Template for Decisionmaking                                                          ""; ""4 Reconstructing the Principle of Double Effect                                                      ""
""5 Physician Assistance at Death or Euthanasia?                                                     """"6 Shaping a Compassionate Response to End-stage Illness                                                              ""; ""7 Toward a Good Death: A Socio-Legal, Ethical, and Medical Challenge                                                                           ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and clinically the use of terminal sedation as efficacious treatment.
Public health laws.
Nursing.
Social medicine.
Ethics.
Palliative treatment.
Medical Law.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Nursing.
Medical Sociology.
Ethics.
Palliative Medicine.