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Description
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.
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Contenu
- Nombre de pages :
- 121
- Langue:
- Anglais
- Collection :
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9781137379153
- Date de parution :
- 22-10-13
- Format:
- Livre relié
- Format numérique:
- Genaaid
- Dimensions :
- 142 mm x 218 mm
- Poids :
- 317 g
