Death in the clinic
By: edited by Lynn A. Jansen.
Contributors: Jansen, Lynn A., 1963-
Series: Practicing bioethics
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Death.; Terminal Care -- ethics.; Attitude to Death.; Bioethical Issues.; Terminally Ill -- psychology.
Description: Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some reflections on whether death is bad / David J. Mayo; title: Defining death / James L. Bernat; title: Against the right to die / J. David Velleman; title: The skull at the banquet / David Barnard; title: Influence of mental illness on decision making at the end of life / Linda Ganzini and Elizabeth R. Goy; title: Creative adaptation in aging and dying / Celia Berdes and Linda Emanuel; title: Rage, rage against the dying light / John Paris, Michael D. Schreiber, and Robert Fogerty; title: Training on newly deceased patients / Mark R. Wicclair.