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020 $a1137379154
020 $a9781137379153 (Hardback)
020 $z9781137377371 (EPUB)
020 $z9781137377395 (PDF)
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050 00 $aKF3823$b.S65 2013
100 1 $aSmith, George P.,$cII$q(George Patrick),$d1939-$eauthor.
245 10 $aPalliative care and end-of-life decisions /$cGeorge P. Smith, II, the Catholic University of America, USA.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2013.
300 $aviii, 121 p. ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- 1. Broadening The Boundaries of Palliative Medicine -- 2. Total Pain Management and Adjusted Care: An Evolving Ideal -- 3. Medical Futility: The Template for Decision-making -- 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.
520 $a"George P. Smith's Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions completes a Bioethics-Health Care epistemology begun in 1989, which addresses the specific issue of managing palliative care at the end-stage of life. Smith argues forcefully that in order to palliate the whole person (encompassing physical and psychological states), an ethic of adjusted care requires recognition of a fundamental right to avoid cruel and unusual suffering from terminal illness. Specifically, this book urges wider consideration and use of terminal sedation as efficacious medical care and as a reasonable procedure in order to safeguard a 'right' to a dignified death. The principle of medical futility is seen as a proper construct for implementing this process. The state legislative responses of California, Vermont, and Washington in enacting Death with Dignity legislation - allowing those with end-stage terminal illness to receive pharmacological assistance in ending their own lives - is held by Smith to be not only commendable, but the proper response for enlightened state action."--Publisher
650 0 $aTerminal care$xLaw and legislation.
650 0 $aTerminally ill$xLegal status, laws, etc.
650 0 $aHospice care.
650 0 $aHospitals$xLaw and legislation.
650 0 $aPalliative treatment$xLegal status, laws, etc.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013417335-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013417335-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013417335-t.html