num_pages: 110
description: Ethics in Hospice Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment explores the pressures and challenges facing hospice and aims to produce new studies and educational materials on hospice ethics to help professionals in the field. Many of the tensions felt by caregivers and practitioners in hospice stem from uncertainty about the ethical mission of hospice and the ethical dilemmas arising in practice. This volume, a result of The Hastings Center and the Hospice Foundation of America’s project on Ethical and Policy Issues in Hospice Care, addresses these issues in a clear, accessible way.Ethics in Hospice Care outlines the economic, social, and cultural challenges facing hospice care in a changing society and a changing health care environment. Issues of concern 
language: English
title: Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment
titlecomplete: Ethics in Hospice Care: Challenges to Hospice Values in a Changing Health Care Environment (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Hospice Journal , Vol 12, No 2)
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publisher: Routledge