Section I: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction (Timothy E. Quill and Franklin G.
Miller)
Chapter 2: Hospice (Charles von Gunten)
Chapter 3: Palliative Care (Susan D. Block)
Section II. Ethical Challenges within Current Systems of Care
Chapter 4: Emerging Complexities in Pediatric Palliative Care
(Renee Boss and Nancy Hutton)
Chapter 5: Patient-Centered Ethos in an Era of Cost Control:
Palliative Care and Healthcare Reform (Diane E. Meier and Emily
Warner)
Chapter 6: Palliative Care, Ethics and Interprofessional Teams
(Sally A. Norton, Deborah Waldrop, and Robert Gramling)
Section III. Addressing Dimensions of Suffering
Chapter 7: Pain Relief and Palliative Care (Nathan Cherny)
Chapter 8: Management of Dyspnea (Thomas W. LeBlanc, David C.
Currow, Jane L. Phillips, and Amy Abernethy)
Chapter 9: Diagnosis and Treatment of Delirium (Maxine De la Cruz
and Eduardo Bruera)
Chapter 10: Psychosocial and Psychiatric Suffering (Yesne Alici,
Kanan Modhwadia, William S. Breitbart)
Chapter 11: Capacity and Shared Decision-Making in Serious Illness
(Ronald M. Epstein and Vikki Entwistle)
Section IV. Difficult Decisions Near the Very End of Life
Chapter 12: Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatments
(Robert D. Truog)
Chapter 13: Medical Futility: Content in the Context of Care (Peggy
Determeyer and Howard Brody )
Chapter 14: Palliative Sedation (J. Andrew Billings)
Chapter 15: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (Emily Rubin
and James L. Bernat)
Chapter 16: Physician Assisted Death (Timothy E. Quill and Franklin
Miller)
Chapter 17
17a: Lessons from Legalized Physician Assisted Death in Oregon and
Washington: (Linda Ganzini)
17b: Physician Assisted Death in Western Europe: The Legal and
Empirical Situation (Heleen Weyers)
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 v Vacco
testing the legal permissibility of physician assisted death. Quill
is a practicing
palliative care physician, the previous author/editor of seven
books, multiple peer-reviewed articles in major medical journals,
and a regular lecturer and commentator on medical decision making,
physician
patient relationships, palliative care, and end of life issues.
Franklin G. Miller. is a member of the senior faculty in the
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and
Special Expert, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural
Research Program. His principal current research interests are
examination of ethical issues in clinical research, death and
dying, and the placebo effect. Dr. Miller has co-authored Death,
Dying, and Organ Transplantation (with Robert Truog), Oxford
University Press (2012), edited five books and written
numerous published articles in medical and bioethics journals on
the ethics of clinical research, ethical issues concerning death
and dying, professional integrity, health policy, pragmatism
and
bioethics, and the placebo effect.
"While there is not a standard format imposed on each chapter, the
contributors often use clinical cases to illustrate the related
ethical challenges. The attention to both breadth and depth of
these issues contributes to the book's relevance. ... In addition
to practitioners of palliative care, students in health-related
fields or those with an interest in bioethics might find this book
relevant." --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review
"This outstanding essay collection, edited by Quill and Miller,
provides a survey of the clinical and ethical dilemmas clinicians
face in palliative care contexts, mainly, but not exclusively, at
life's end. The volume helpfully provides perspectives from the
diverse disciplines represented in a contemporary palliative care
team, general physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, etc. and the
diverse locations in which palliative care takes place, from
in-home hospice
to inpatient hospital settings. The book treats the major ethical
topics that arise in most clinical contexts; this includes issues
related to pediatric cases, and also shared decision making and
substituted judgment. [B]ecause of the clinical chapters, the book
is best suited for health sciences libraries and professional
programs in medicine and nursing. Highly recommended." --A. W.
Klink, CHOICE
"This outstanding essay collection, edited by Quill (Univ. of
Rochester) and Miller (National Institutes of Health), provides a
survey of the clinical and ethical dilemmas clinicians face in
palliative care contexts, mainly, but not exclusively, at life's
end. The volume helpfully provides perspectives from the diverse
disciplines represented in a contemporary palliative care team,
general physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, etc. and the diverse
locations in
which palliative care takes place, from in-home hospice to
inpatient hospital settings." -- Choice
"This is a very good read, not just for professionals working in
the fi eld, but for other disciplines,who would like to know more
about the origins of palliative care and its relationship to other
disciplines." -The Australian Pain Society Newsletter
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
