Palliative care and end-of-life deci...
Smith, George P., (II) (1939-)

 

  • Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 616.02/9
    書名/作者: Palliative care and end-of-life decisions // George P. Smith.
    作者: Smith, George P.,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: Palliative treatment - Moral and ethical aspects.
    標題: Right to die.
    標題: HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
    標題: MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
    標題: MEDICAL / Diseases
    標題: MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
    標題: MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
    標題: Ethische aspecten.
    標題: Euthanasie.
    標題: Palliatieve behandeling.
    ISBN: 1137377399 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1299999948 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137377395 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781299999947 (electronic bk.)
    內容註: 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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137377395
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