Research Catalog

Title

The patient's wish to die : research, ethics, and palliative care / edited by Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Gudat, and Kathrin Ohnsorge.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Gudat, Heike,
• Ohnsorge, Kathrin,
• Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph, 1959-

Description

x, 264 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Wish to die statements are becoming a frequent phenomenon in terminally ill patients. Those confronted by these statments need to understand the complexity of such wishes, so they can respond competently and compassionately to the requests. If misunderstood, the statements can be taken at face-value and the practitioner may not recognise that a patient is in fact experiencing ambivalent feelings at the end of life, or they may misinterpret the expressed wish to die as a sign of clinical depression. Public debate about the morality and ethics of various end-of-life care options has exploded in recent years. However, it has never been sensitive to the finer aspects of clinical reality or the experiences of patients. The Patient's Wish to Die: Research, Ethics, and Palliative Care brings together that reality and the patient's voice, combining them with different research approaches. It presents the best available knowledge and research methodologies about patients' wishes at the end-of-life, together with a series of ethical views and a discussion about the clinical implications for palliative care. The book presents material in an open and unbiased manner whilst remaining sensitive to the spiritual and existential dimensions of dying, and to the different cultural views that provide meaning to the individual. Written by the best specialists and ethics scholars from around the world, including palliative care practitioners and end-of-life scholars from countries where assisted dying practices are legalized and from those where it isn't, The The Patient's Wish to Die: Research, Ethics, and Palliative Care will prove essential reading for all those working or studying in the field of palliative care.--Description from back cover.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Advance Care Planning
• Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects
• Attitude to Death
• Decision Making
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
• Pain
• Palliative Care
• Palliative Care > ethics
• Palliative treatment > Psychological aspects
• Palliative treatment
• Patient Participation
• Psychology
• Right to Die
• Right to Die > ethics
• Right to die > Moral and ethical aspects
• Right to die > Moral and ethical aspects
• Suicidal behavior
• Terminal Care > ethics
• Terminal Care > psychology
• Terminal care > Moral and ethical aspects
• Terminally Ill

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Research -- Ethics -- Practice -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780198713982
• 0198713983

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library