Robin Downie & Fiona Randall 
End of life choices [PDF ebook] 
Consensus and controversy

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A book for nurses, doctors and all who provide end of life care, this essential volume guides readers through the ethical complexities of such care, including current policy initiatives, and encourages debate and discussion on their controversial aspects. dived into two parts, it introduces and explains clinical decision making-processes about which there is broad consensus, in line with guidance documents issued by WHO, BMA, GMC, and similar bodies. The changing political and social context where ‘patient choice’ has become a central idea, and the broadened scope of potients’ best interests, have added to the complexity of decision-making in end of life care. The authors discuss issues widely encountered by GPs, nurses, and hospital clinicians. These include patient choice, consent, life-prolonging treatment, and symptom relief including sedation. Part rwo explores the more controversial current end of life care initiatives, such as advance care planning preferred place of care and death, euthanais and assited suicide, extended ideas of ‘best interests’, and the view that there are therapeutic duties to the relatives of Throughout their discussion the authors draw attention to loose ends and contradictions in some of the proposals. Examining the current policy of comsumerist choice, they reject its place in the health service, proposing a a realistic, fair, humane and widely adoptable system of end of life care. As knowledge of ethical theories is required in training courses, and the vocabulary of ethical theory is widespread in current discussions a substantial appendix on ethical theories and terms is available online. Written by the same authors as The Philosophy of Palliative Care: Critique and Reconstruction, which won the Medical Journalists’ Association Specialits Book Award 2007, this new book for non-specialists is essential reading for all health care professionals involved in providing end of life care.

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Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng PDF ● ISBN 9780191575525 ● Nhà xuất bản Oxford University Press ● Được phát hành 2009 ● Có thể tải xuống 3 lần ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 8543331 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
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