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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions (Hardcover, New)
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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions (Hardcover, New)
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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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