Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide

No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine.\n\nWhat is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when patients refuse treatments likely to be beneficial, or demand treatments not likely to be? Who makes medical decisions for patients who are too ill to decide for themselves? Do patients have the "right to die" (and, if so, what exactly does that mean)?In this volume noted palliative care physician and bioethicist Robert C. Macauley addresses a broad range of issues from historical, legal, clinical, and ethical perspectives. Clinically nuanced and philosophically rigorous, Ethics in Palliative Care analyzes hot-button subjects like physician assisted dying and euthanasia, as well as often overlooked topics such as pediatric palliative care, organ donation, palliative care research, and moral distress. Drawing on real cases yet written in non-technical language, this complete guide will appeal to both medical professionals and lay readers. Additional ISBNs 0199313946, 0190652330, 9780199313945, 9780190652333Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide is written by Robert C. Macauley MD and published by Oxford University Press. ISBNs for Ethics in Palliative Care are 9780190652340, 0190652349 and the print ISBNs are 9780199313945, 0199313946. Additional ISBNs include 0199313946, 0190652330, 9780199313945, 9780190652333.