A collection of articles that show that neither fear nor fascination is helpful in working through the complex ethical issues that must be confronted by a dying patient, an attending physician, and/or members of the patient's family. They also show the interface of professional work in medicine, law, and ethics as they deal with the subject of death and with the treatment of persons near death.
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Ethical Issues in Death and Dying
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part One. Truthtelling
- 1. Do Cancer Patients Want to Be Told?
- 2. What to Tell Cancer Patients: A Study of Medical Attitudes
- 3. Medical Diagnosis: Our Right to Know the Truth
- 4. Truth and the Physician
- Part Two. Determining Death
- 5. Death: Process or Event?
- 6. Death as an Event: A Commentary on Robert Morison
- 7. A Definition of Irreversible Coma
- 8. Refinements in Criteria for the Determination of Death: An Appraisal
- 9. A Statutory Definition of the Standards for Determining Human Death: An Appraisal and a Proposal
- 10. Tucker v. Lower
- Part Three. Allowing to Die
- Infants
- 11. Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in the Special-Care Nursery
- 12. Mongolism, Parental Desires, and the Right to Life
- 13. To Save or Let Die: The Dilemma of Modern Medicine
- 14. Maine Medical Center v. Houle
- Adults
- 15. On (Only) Caring for the Dying
- 16. Prolonging Life
- 17. A Patient’s Decision to Decline Lifesaving Medical Treatment: Bodily Integrity versus the Preservation of Life
- 18. In the Matter of KAREN QUINLAN, An Alleged Incompetent
- Part Four. Euthanasia
- 19. An Alternative to the Ethic of Euthanasia
- 20. Should There Be a Legal Right to Die?
- 21. Justifying the Final Solution
- 22. Deciding for Yourself: The Objections
- 23. Ethics and Euthanasia
- Part Five. Suicide
- 24. Preventing Suicide
- 25. The Ethics of Suicide
- 26. Philosophical and Ethical Considerations of Suicide Prevention
- Index
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