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George P. Smith's Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions completes a Bioethics-Health Care epistemology begun in 1989, which addresses the specific issue of managing palliative care at the end-stage of life. Smith argues forcefully that in order to palliate the whole person (encompassing physical and psychological states), an ethic of adjusted care requires recognition of a fundamental right to avoid cruel and unusual suffering from terminal illness. Specifically, this book urges wider consideration and use of terminal sedation as efficacious medical care and as a reasonable procedure in order to safeguard a 'right' to a dignified death. The principle of medical futility is seen as a proper construct for implementing this process. The state legislative responses of California, Vermont, and Washington in enacting Death with Dignity legislation - allowing those with end-stage terminal illness to receive pharmacological assistance in ending their own lives - is held by Smith to be not only commendable, but the proper response for enlightened state action.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Ethical issues & debates

• Plný název: Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions
• Autor: G. Smith
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 121
• EAN: 9781137379153
• ISBN: 1137379154
• ID: 04771574
• Nakladatelství: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Hmotnost: 306 g
• Rozměry: 221 × 149 × 14 mm
• Datum vydání: 22. October 2013

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