Ethical Issues in Death and Dying / / Robert F. Weir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Weir, Robert F.,
• MitwirkendeR: Campbell, A. G. M.,; Cantor, Norman L.,; Capron, Alexander Morgan,; Drinan, Robert F.,; Duff, Raymond S.,; Dyck, Arthur J.,; Fletcher, George P.,; Fletcher, Joseph,; Friesen, Stanley R.,; Gustafson, James M.,; Kass, Leon R.,; Kelly, William D.,; Maguire, Daniel,; Mansson, Helge Hilding,; McCormick, Richard A.,; Meyer, Bernard C.,; Morison, Robert S.,; Oken, Donald,; Pretzel, Paul W.,; Ramsey, Paul,; Shneidman, Edwin S.,; Szasz, Thomas S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1977]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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