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Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /George P. Smith.
Author:	Smith, George P.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Palliative treatmentMoral and ethical aspects.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137377395
ISBN:	1137377399 (electronic bk.)

Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /
Smith, George P.,II1939-

Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /George P. Smith. - 1 online resource.

Broadening The Boundaries of Palliative Medicine -- Total Pain Management and Adjusted Care: An Evolving Ideal -- Medical Futility: The Template for Decision-making -- Reconstructing The Principle of Double Effect -- Physician Assistance at Death or Euthanasia? -- Shaping a Compassionate Response to End-Stage Illness -- Toward a Good Death: A Socio-Legal, Ethical, and Medical Challenge.

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.

ISBN: 1137377399 (electronic bk.)

Source: 708579Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

567993
Palliative treatment
--Moral and ethical aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: R726

Dewey Class. No.: 616.02/9

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