Palliative care ethics : a companion for all specialties / Fiona Randall and R.S. Downie.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford medical publicationsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 312 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780192630681 (pbk) :
- 0192630687 (pbk. : acidfree)
- Palliative treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Palliative treatment -- Decision making
- Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Terminal care -- Decision making
- Ethics, Medical
- Palliative Care
- Terminal Care
- Confidentiality
- Decision Making
- Physician-Patient Relations
- Emotions
- Euthanasia, Passive
- Health Care Rationing
- Health Services Research
- Patient Care Team
- Personal Autonomy
- Professional-Family Relations
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Quality of Life
- Truth Disclosure
- Value of Life
- 362.175 21
- 616.029
- R726 .R35 1999
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Previous ed.: 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Ethics and aims in palliative care -- Ch. 2. The patient-carer relationship -- Ch. 3. The relative-professional relationship -- Ch. 4. Teamwork -- Ch. 5. Process of clinical decision making -- Ch. 6. Giving information -- Ch. 7. Confidentiality -- Ch. 8. Clinical treatment decisions -- Ch. 9. Other management decisions -- Ch. 10. Emotional care -- Ch. 11. Research -- Ch. 12. Resource allocation -- Ch. 13. Reply to critics -- Ch. 14. Quality and value of life.
For all those who care for the terminally ill and advanced stage cancer patients, this book includes guidance on ethics and aims in palliative care, the patient-carer relationship, teamwork, confidentiality, and resource allocation.
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