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Terminal illness opposing viewpoints /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Greenhaven Press,
[2005]
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Series: | Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
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Physical Description: |
204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Contents:
- ch. 1. Do the terminally ill receive quality end-of-life care?
- 1. Americans are increasingly well informed about how to obtain quality end-of-life care / Lisa Miller
- 2. Americans are ill informed about how to obtain quality end-of-life care / Last Acts
- 3. Advance directives are improving end-of-life care / Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter
- 4. Advance directives do not always improve end-of-life care / Valerie Reitman
- 5. Hospice care is benefiting the terminally ill / pt. I. Jack D. Gordon ; pt. II. Stephen Kiernan
- 6. Many minorities are not benefiting from hospice care / Gwen London
- 7. Care for the dying is inadequate in Western society / Julia Neuberger
- 8. End-of-life care in developing nations has not been adequately addressed / Peter A. Singer, Kerry W. Bowman
- ch. 2. How should the physical pain of terminal illness be relieved?
- 1. Effective pain relief is hampered by inadequate knowledge / Julia Riley
- 2. Effective pain relief is hampered by drug control laws / Carol Sieger
- 3. Patients should be allowed to choose terminal sedation / Timothy E. Quill, Ira R. Byock
- 4. Terminal sedation should not be used in palliative care / Mark B. Blocher
- 5. Marijuana should be legalized for seriously ill people / Byron Demmer
- 6. Marijuana should not be legalized for seriously ill people / pt. I. Mark Souder ; pt. II. Janet M. LaRue
- ch. 3. How can the spiritual and emotional pain of terminal illness be eased?
- 1. Doctors should speak openly with patients and their families about death / Kerri Wachter
- 2. Embracing feelings about death before becoming ill is beneficial / Fred Branfman
- 3. Doctors should address the spirituality of the terminally ill / Myles N. Sheehan
- 4. Doctors should show more compassion toward the terminally ill / Rachel K. Sobel
- 5. Doctors should help terminally ill patients die with a clear mind / Josh Fischman
- ch. 4. Should euthanasia be allowed for terminally ill patients?
- 1. The terminally ill should be allowed to choose euthanasia / Andrea E. Richardson
- 2. The terminally ill should not be allowed to choose euthanasia / Margaret Somerville
- 3. Legalizing euthanasia empowers patients and improves quality of care / Richard T. Hull
- 4. Legalizing euthanasia eliminates patient autonomy and reduces quality of care / Herbert Hendin
- 5. Physician-assisted suicide should be legalized / Faye Girsh
- 6. Physician-assisted suicide should not be legalized / Lawrence Rudden, Gerard V. Bradley
- 7. Euthanasia should be legalized and regulated by the government / Economist
- 8. Euthanasia should not be legalized and regulated by the government / Matthew Parris.