The Ethics of Palliative Care Download

Author: Henk ten Have
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0335211402
Category: Medical

The Ethics of Palliative Care: European Perspectives (Facing Death Series)

As palliative care develops across many of the countries of Europe, we find that it continues to raise important ethical challenges. Download The Ethics of Palliative Care medical books for free.
Palliative care practice requires ethical sensitivity and understanding. At the same time the very existence of palliative care calls for ethical explanation. Ethics and palliative care meet over some vital issues: 'the good death', sedation at the end of life, requests for euthanasia, futile treatment, and the role of research. Yet palliative care appears uncertain about its goals and there is evidence that its ethical underpinnings are changing. Likewise, the moral problems of palliative care are only partly served by the four 'principles' of modern bioethics. This innovative book, with contributions by clinicians, Get The Ethics of Palliative Care our bestseller medical books.

The Ethics of Palliative Care Download

Palliative care practice requires ethical sensitivity and understanding. At the same time the very existence of palliative care calls for ethical explanation. Ethics and palliative care meet over some vital issues: 'the good death', sedation at the end of life, requests for euthanasia, futile treatment, and the role of research. Yet palliative care appears uncertain about its goals and there is evidence that its ethical underpinnings are changing This innovative book, with contributions by clinicians,

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