Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide

No specialty faces more diverse and challenging ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan ahead for the end of life? How should physicians respond when patients refuse treatments likely to be beneficial, or demand treatments not likely to be? Who makes medical decisions for patients who are too ill to decide for themselves? Do patients have the "right to die" (and, if so, what exactly does that mean)?

In this volume noted palliative care physician and bioethicist Robert C. Macauley addresses a broad range of issues from historical, legal, clinical, and ethical perspectives. Clinically nuanced and philosophically rigorous, Ethics in Palliative Care analyzes hot-button subjects like physician assisted dying and euthanasia, as well as often overlooked topics such as pediatric palliative care, organ donation, palliative care research, and moral distress. Drawing on real cases yet written in non-technical language, this complete guide will appeal to both medical professionals and lay readers.

• 50 Studies Every Palliative Care Doctor Should Know (Fifty Studies Every Doctor Should Know)
• Demystifying Opioid Conversion Calculations: A Guide for Effective Dosing, 2nd Edition
• Hospice and Palliative Medicine Handbook: A Clinical Guide
• Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care (Oxford American Handbooks in Medicine)
• That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
• Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
• Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope
• Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine
• Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Beauchamp))
• Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare