Caring for the dying critical issues at the edge of life /

Other Authors: Baird, Robert M., 1937-, Rosenbaum, Stuart E.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, [2003]
Physical Description: 316 pages ; 23 cm.
Series: Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references.
Debunking the myths of hospice / Naomi Naierman -- A comparison of hospice in the U.K. and the U.S. / Karen Y. Chapman, Lessie Bass -- Changing the game in the intensive care unit : letting nature take its course / Helen S. Chapple -- Beyond "death with dignity" : a hospice vignette / Douglas MacDonald -- What's in a name? / Bruce H. Chamberlain -- A caregiver's quandary : how am I to evaluate and respond to the other's suffering? / Clyde Nabe -- Palliative treatments of last resort : choosing the least harmful alternative / Timothy E. Quill, Barbara Coombs Lee, Sally Nunn -- Caring for the dying : congressional mischief / Marcia Angell -- House testimony on the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 / Ann Jackson -- House testimony on the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999 / N. Gregory Hamilton for Physicians for Compassionate Care -- Existential suffering and palliative sedation : a brief commentary with a proposal for clinical guidelines / Paul Rousseau -- Palliative sedation vs. terminal sedation : what's in a name? / W. Clay Jackson -- Spirituality and care at the end of life / Myles N. Sheehan -- Spiritual care at the end of life / Tad Dunne -- Control theory in dying : what do we know? / Susan Redding -- In search of a good death : observations of patients, families, and providers / Karen E. Steinhauser ... [et al.] -- The Jewish patient and terminal dehydration : a hospice ethical dilemma / Janet Bodell, Marie-Ange Weng -- Avoiding family feuds : responding to surrogate demands for life-sustaining interventions / Ann Alpers, Bernard Lo -- Commentary : anxieties as a legal impediment to the doctor-proxy relationship / Marshall B. Kapp -- Commentary : from contract to covenant in advance-care planning / Joseph J. Fins -- Twenty-five years after Quinlan : a review of the jurisprudence of death and dying / Norman L. Cantor.
Physical Description: 316 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 1573929697