The dying experience expanding options for dying and suffering patients

Death and dying: history and contemporary issues -- A brief history of death and dying -- The emergence of bioethics: landmark cases in hastening death: 1950-present -- On death: when is a person dead? -- Hospice and palliative care -- The hospice and palliative care movements -- The right to assist...

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1. Verfasser: LiPuma, Samuel H. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: DeMarco, Joseph P. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London, UK, Lanham, Md, New York Rowman & Littlefield International 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Death and dying: history and contemporary issues -- A brief history of death and dying -- The emergence of bioethics: landmark cases in hastening death: 1950-present -- On death: when is a person dead? -- Hospice and palliative care -- The hospice and palliative care movements -- The right to assisted death and the success of palliative care -- On hastening death: old and new perspectives -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- Expanding the use of physician assisted suicide for people with progressive dementia disorders: why impending and inevitable dementia should qualify -- The morality and legality of hastening death -- Cultural attitudes and specious arguments regarding the dying experience.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 249 Seiten
ISBN:9781786608581
978-1-78660-858-1
9781786608574
978-1-78660-857-4