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Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate. The question of physician assisted suicide is not a simple matter. This cross-disciplinary collection of essays, offering views from a range of disciplines, including bioethics, law, medicine, and religion, draws attention to the variety of questions posed.
Assisted suicide --- Miscellaneous. --- Euthanasie --- Assisted death (Assisted suicide) --- Assisted dying (Assisted suicide) --- Death, Assisted (Assisted suicide) --- Doctor-assisted suicide --- Dying, Assisted (Assisted suicide) --- Patient-directed death --- Patient-directed dying --- Physician-assisted suicide --- Suicide --- Euthanasia --- Miscellaneous
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Christian Science --- Health --- Medicine --- Spiritual healing. --- Controversial literature. --- Doctrines. --- Religious aspects --- Christian Science.
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Assisted suicide. --- Palliative treatment. --- Patient satisfaction. --- Right to die. --- Terminal care --- Suicide, Assisted. --- Euthanasia. --- Palliative Care. --- Right to Die. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Assisted suicide --- Palliative treatment --- Patient satisfaction --- Right to die --- Death, Right to --- Death with dignity --- Natural death (Right to die) --- Palliation (Medical care) --- Palliative care --- Palliative medicine --- Assisted death (Assisted suicide) --- Assisted dying (Assisted suicide) --- Death, Assisted (Assisted suicide) --- Doctor-assisted suicide --- Dying, Assisted (Assisted suicide) --- Patient-directed death --- Patient-directed dying --- Physician-assisted suicide --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Death --- Life and death, Power over --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Euthanasia --- Suicide --- Health attitudes --- Medical care --- Medical personnel and patient --- Satisfaction --- Therapeutics --- Evaluation
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Because euthanasia and assisted suicide do occur worldwide, it is crucial that the most appropriate, most expedient drugs be used and administered properly. This book dispels the myth, quite common in the United States, that morphine and benzodiazepines are the best drugs for ending life and points out the urgent need for research on drugs to be used for this purpose. Currently, as this book illustrates, there exists little reliable scientific data for identifying the fatal dose of a drug in humans, yet drugs are used daily to induce death, both successfully and unsuccessfully. Readers learn the many factors that can affect the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of a drug, and so intensify or reduce its toxicity. Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia acts as a guide for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, persons suffering from fatal diseases, and their families and friends as they struggle with the moral, religious, and legal issues that accompany the idea of ending a life of suffering. The authors, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds, gather the facts, issues, and arguments to allow those involved in the controversy, either publicly or privately, to make the most informed decision possible." Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia brings to the foreground of the controversy over euthanasia and assisted suicide not only the moral and legal issues, but also regulatory and empirical issues, issues of prudent public policy, and choice of drugs. You'll witness candid accounts of current practice, legal and extralegal, of drug use in assisted suicide and euthanasia, and be encouraged to objectively reexamine the issues that are at stake. With this book, you'll acquire a solid understanding of the array and complexity of the social questions faced by terminally ill patients, their physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia was chosen as one of Doody's "250 Best Health Sciences Books" for 1996! Much of the focus of Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia is on patient decisionmaking and the factors leading to a patient's choice to hasten death. Readers learn from different medical perspectives, the key psychiatric, medical, and social factors that require assessment when terminally ill patients, such as those with AIDS or cancer, express the desire to die immediately. Readers are also introduced to issues about depression, pain, psychological distress, anxiety, organic mental disorders, and a variety of demographic and social variables. Among the important topics readers learn about are: nursing perspectives on assisted suicide and euthanasia, end of life issues in patients with AIDS, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, current law on physician-assisted suicide,euthanasia and euthanizing drugs in the Netherlands, toxicological issues with drugs used to end life, when drugs fail to end life
Assisted suicide --- Drugs --- Euthanasia --- Pharmacists --- Law and legislation. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Prescribing --- Professional ethics. --- euthanasie --- geneesmiddelen --- recht (wetgeving, rechtspraak, rechtsbeginselen, juridische aspecten, aansprakelijkheid) --- Verenigde Staten --- médicaments --- droit (aspects juridiques, législation, jurisprudence, principes de droit, responsabilité) --- Etats Unis --- Medical laws and legislation --- Medicaments --- Medications --- Medicine (Drugs) --- Medicines (Drugs) --- Pharmaceuticals --- Prescription drugs --- Bioactive compounds --- Medical supplies --- Pharmacopoeias --- Chemotherapy --- Materia medica --- Pharmacology --- Pharmacy --- Apothecaries --- Chemists (Pharmacists) --- Druggists --- Chemists --- Medical personnel --- Law and legislation --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Prescribing&delete& --- Professional ethics
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Because medicine can preserve and restore health and function, it has been widely acknowledged as a basic good that a just society should provide its members. Yet there is wide disagreement over the scope of what is to be provided, to whom, how, when and why. In this uniquely comprehensive book some of the best-known philosophers, doctors, lawyers, political scientists, and economists writing on the subject discuss the concerns and deepen our understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that run through the contemporary debate. The first section lays a broad theoretical basis for understanding the concept of justice, particularly as it relates to the distribution of health care. The second section critically examines how medical care is distributed in different countries around the world and the particular advantages and injustices associated with those systems. The third section draws attention to the special needs of different social groups and the specific issues of justice that are raised by the impact of various policies on health care distribution. The concluding section delves intothe dilemmas that confront those designing health care systems--the politics, the priorities, and the place of desires as opposed to needs in a socially just scheme.
Social medicine --- Right to health care --- Social justice --- Medical ethics --- Medical economics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Medical ethics. --- Right to health. --- Social justice. --- Social medicine. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- gezondheidszorg --- gezondheidszorgbeleid (gezondheidszorghervorming, gezondheidszorgsysteem) --- rechtvaardigheid (rechtvaardigheidsprincipe, distributieve rechtvaardigheid) --- geneeskunde --- soins de santé --- politique des soins de santé (réforme des soins de santé, système des soins de santé) --- justice (principe de justice, justice distributive, justice sociale) --- médecine --- Right to health --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical sociologists --- Equality --- Justice --- Health care, Right to --- Health, Right to --- Medical care, Right to --- Right to medical care --- Social rights --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Economics, Medical --- Health --- Health economics --- Hygiene --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Medical economics - Moral and ethical aspects
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Examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. The two volumes of "Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life" present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. Volume II, on justice and hastening death, examines whether there is a difference between killing and letting die, issues about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and questions about distributive justice and decisions about life and death.
Euthanasia --- Right to die --- Assisted suicide --- Terminal care --- Euthanasie --- Droit à la mort --- Aide au suicide --- Soins en phase terminale --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Aspect moral --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Death. --- Droit à la mort --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Advance health care directives --- Advance healthcare directives --- Advance medical directives --- Advanced directives (Medical care) --- Directives, Advance (Medical care) --- Healthcare directives, Advance --- Medical directives, Advance --- Medical care --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Patient advocacy --- Philosophy --- Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Assisted suicide - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Right to die - Moral and ethical aspects.
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In these twelve papers notable ethicists use the resources of ethical theory to illuminate important theoretical and practical topics, including the nature of public health, notions of community, population bioethics, the legitimate role of law, the use of cost-effectiveness as a methodology, vaccinations, and the nature of infectious disease. Public health is an important and fast-developing area of ethical discussion. In this volume a range of issues in public health ethics are explored using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosophy of science, applied ethics, law, and economics. The twelve original papers presented consider numerous ethical issues arise within public health ethics. To what extent can the public good or the public interest justify state interventions that impose limits upon the freedom of individuals? What role should the law play in regulating risks? Should governments actively aim to change our preferences about such things as food, smoking or physical exercise? What are public goods, and what role (if any) do they play in public health? To what extent do individuals have moral obligations to contribute to protecting the community or the public good? Where is it appropriate to concentrate upon prevention rather than cure? Given the fact that we cannot be protected from all harm, what sorts of harm provide a justification for public health action? What limits do we wish to place upon public health activities?How do we ensure that the interests of individuals are not set aside or forgotten in the pursuit of population benefits? An excellent line-up of authors from North America, Europe, and the UK tackle these questions.
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This book provides a much needed introduction to some of the relevant philosophical concepts and arguments that might be used to build a philosophy of public health. Consisting of both theoretical contributions and case studies, this multidisciplinary collection of essays will both inform and generate debate among academics, policy makers and practitioners about these important issues in public health.
General ethics --- Public health --- Philosophy --- volksgezondheid --- filosofie (filosofische aspecten) --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- recht (wetgeving, rechtspraak, rechtsbeginselen, juridische aspecten, aansprakelijkheid) --- santé publique --- philosophie (aspects philosophiques) --- ethique (aspects ethiques) --- droit (aspects juridiques, législation, jurisprudence, principes de droit, responsabilité) --- Public health. --- Public Health --- Congresses --- Philosophy, Medical --- Environment and Public Health --- Health --- Medicine --- Publication Formats --- Publication Characteristics --- Health Care --- Population Characteristics --- Humanities --- Health Occupations --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Public Health - General --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Public health - Philosophy
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