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| Ethics at the End of Life | |
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| Troubling Questions | |
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| An Overview of the Issues | |
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| Approaches to Addressing Ethical Issues | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Depression, Competence, and the Right to Refuse Lifesaving Medical Treatment" | |
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| "Continued Treatment of the Fatally Ill for the Benefit of Others" | |
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| "What Do Apple Pie and Motherhood Have to Do with Feeding Tubes and Caring for the Patient?" | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Surrogate Decision Making | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Problem of Proxies with Interests of Their Own: Toward a Better Theory of Proxy Decisions" | |
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| "Decision Making in the Incompetent Elderly: 'The Daughter from California Syndrome'" | |
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| "Taking Families Seriously" | |
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| Sample Statement of Patient's Preferences | |
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| Durable Power of Attorney | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Futility and Fighting Death | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Futility in Practice" | |
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| "Medical Futility and Care of Dying Patients," | |
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| "Futile Care: Physicians Should Not Be Allowed to Refuse to Treat," | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Resuscitating the Dying Patient | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Emergency Department Resuscitation Techniques," | |
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| "Resuscitation of Patients with Metastatic Cancer: Is Transient Benefit Still Futile?" | |
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| "Must Consent Always Be Obtained for a Do-Not-Resuscitate Order?" | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Assisted Suicide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making," | |
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| "Giving Death a Hand: When the Dying and the Doctor Stand in a Special Relationship," | |
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| "The Reasons So Many People Support Physician-Assisted Suicide--And Why These Reasons Are Not Convincing," | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Euthanasia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Doctrine of Double Effect and the Problem of Euthanasia," | |
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| "Euthanasia: Historical, Ethical, and Empiric Perspectives," | |
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| "When Self-Determination Runs Amok," | |
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| "When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok," | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Caring for Seriously Ill Newborns | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Withholding Nutrition from Seriously Ill Newborn Infants: A Parent's Perspective," | |
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| "Decision Making in the Nursery: An Ethical Dilemma," | |
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| "Discontinuing Life Support in an Infant of a Drug-Addicted Mother: Whose Decision Is It?" | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Death and Managed Care | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "End-of-Life Treatment in Managed Care: The Potential and the Peril," | |
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| "Managed Care and Managed Death," | |
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| "Dying in 559 Beds: Efficiency, 'Best Buys,' and the Ethics of Standardization in National Health Care," | |
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| Discussion Questions | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |