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:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.