The patient's wish to die : research, ethics, and palliative care / edited by Christoph Rehmann-Sutt...
The patient's wish to die : research, ethics, and palliative care / edited by Christoph Rehmann-Sutt...
The patient's wish to die : research, ethics, and palliative care / edited by Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Gudat, and Kathrin Ohnsorge.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/2271
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English
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Physical content
x, 264 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
pt. I Introduction -- 1.Why it is important to know about patients' wishes to die / Kathrin Ohnsorge -- pt. II Research -- 2.Illness narratives, meaning making, and epistemic injustice in research at the end of life / Yasmin Gunaratnam -- 3.Expressed desire for hastened death in seven patients livin...
9.Acting on a wish to die at the end of life: the Swiss situation / Alexandre Mauron -- 10.Understanding older people's wish to die / Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen -- 11.Dialogue intermezzo: I -- pt. III Ethics -- 12.Caring and killing in the clinic: the argument of self-determination / Lars Johan Mate...
20.From understanding to patient-centred management: clinical pictures of a wish to die / Heike Gudat -- 21.What does the wish to hasten death mean for the palliative patient? Clinical implications / Christian Villavicencio-Chavez -- pt. V Conclusion -- 22.Concluding dialogue.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
This book provides an up-to-date review of the state of knowledge in international end-of-life research and discusses open questions. Empirical, ethical, and clinical perspectives help readers understand the difficult phenomenon of patients' wishes to die from relevant perspectives, including the patients'. This book offers a cross-disciplinary und...
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The patient's wish to die : research, ethics, and palliative care / edited by Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Gudat, and Kathrin Ohnsorge.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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©2015.
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G 2016/2271
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74VKVPaMNvqA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVPaMNvqA
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ISBN
9780198713982
0198713983
DDC
179.7
MMS ID
991023993315402626
