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. Ed(S): Quill, Timothy E.; Miller, Franklin G. - Palliative Care and Ethics - 9780199316670 - V9780199316670
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Palliative Care and Ethics

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Description for Palliative Care and Ethics The practice of palliative care and hospice is filled with overt and sometimes covert ethical challenges. These challenges are addressed by leading international palliative care and hospice scholars under three main domains: care delivery systems; addressing the many dimensions of suffering; and difficult decisions near the end of life. Editor(s): Quill, Timothy E.; Miller, Franklin G. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: MBDC; MMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 242 x 29. Weight in Grams: 552.
Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time. Palliative care offers careful attention to pain and symptom management, added support for patients and families, and assistance with difficult medical decision making alongside any and all desired medical treatments, but it does not include a comprehensive system of care as is provided by hospice. The practice of palliative care and ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199316670
SKU
V9780199316670
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21

About . Ed(S): Quill, Timothy E.; Miller, Franklin G.
Timothy E. Quill is a Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine where he directs their Palliative Care Division. He is a board member and the immediate past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He was the lead physician plaintiff on a US Supreme Court Case Quill ... Read more

Reviews for Palliative Care and Ethics
This is a very good read, not just for professionals working in the field, but for other disciplines, who would like to know more about the origins of palliative care and its relationship to other disciplines.
Christin Bird, The Australian Pain Society
This is a good synopsis of the range of ethical issues encountered in palliative care, including ... Read more

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