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" Palliative care and end-of-life decisions / "
George P. Smith, II
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BL
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641694
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Smith, George P.,II, (George Patrick),1939-
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Palliative care and end-of-life decisions /\ George P. Smith, II
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2013
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Palgrave pivot
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viii, 121 p. ;; 23 cm
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9781137379153
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: 1137379154
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9781137377371 (EPUB)
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9781137377395 (PDF)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-116) and index
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Broadening the boundaries of palliative medicine -- Total pain management and adjusted care : an evolving ideal -- Medical futility : the template for decision-making -- Reconstructing the principle of double effect -- Physician assistance at death or euthanasia? -- Shaping a compassionate response to end-stage illness -- Toward a good death : a socio-legal, ethical, and medical challenge
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"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"--Publisher
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Hospice Care
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Medical Futility
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Palliative Care
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Right to Die
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Terminally Ill
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Terminal care-- Law and legislation
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Terminally ill-- Legal status, laws, etc
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Hospice care
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Hospitals-- Law and legislation
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Palliative treatment-- Legal status, laws, etc
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344.7304/1
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KF3823.S64 2013
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2014 B-176
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WB 310
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