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

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Other Authors: Baird, Robert M., 1937-, Rosenbaum, Stuart E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c2003.
Series:Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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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.