Decision-making near the end of life
Subtitle: issues, development, and future directions
By: [edited by] James L. Werth, Dean Blevins.
Contributors: Werth, James L.; Blevins, Dean.
Series: Series in death, dying, and bereavement
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415954488
Subjects: Terminal care -- Decision making; Terminal Care -- ethics -- United States; Decision Making -- United States; Terminally Ill -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adolescent end-of-life decision-making: family-centered advance care planning / Richard and Maureen E. Lyon; title: The grip of pain / Jonathan Spannhake; title: Decision-making in the absence of advance directives : a personal story of letting go / Laura Crow; title: A hastened death / Nicola Raye; title: How people die in the United States / Marilyn Field; title: The media and end of life choices and decisions / Marilyn Webb; title: Three female faces : the law of end-of-life decision making in America / Kathy L. Cerminara; title: End-of-life choices / Phillip M. Kleepsies, Pamela J. Miller, and Thomas A. Preston; title: Decision-making in palliative care / Victor T. Chang and Nethra Sambamoorthi; title: Communication related to end-of-life care and decisions / Ellen L. Csikai; title: Dying in institutions / Suzanne S. Prevost and J. Brandon Wallace; title: What would Terri want? : advance directive and the psychological challenges of surrogate decision making / Peter H. Ditto; title: The possible impact of mental health issues on end-of-life decision making / James L. Werth Jr.; title: Family end-of-life decision making / Sharla Wells-DiGregorio; title: Religious and spiritual perspectives on life-threatening illness, dying, and death / Kenneth J. Doka; title: Culture, individual diversity, and end-of-life decisions / Bert Hayslip Jr. ... [et al.]; title: Decisions by and for adults with questionnable mental capacity : focus on dementia / Ladislav Volicier; title: Pediatric patient-oriented problem-solving near the end of life / Chris Feudtner and Anne Kazak.