Palliative care and end-of-life decisions

The Resource Palliative care and end-of-life decisions
Label
Palliative care and end-of-life decisions
Statement of responsibility
George P. Smith, II
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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's description
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Cataloging source
UKPGM
Dewey number
616.02/9
Index
no index present
LC call number
R726
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
WB 310
Series statement
Palgrave pivot
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