The Oxford Handbook Of Ethics At The End Of Life (oxford Handbooks)

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life Copyright Contents Introduction Section I Clinical and Legal Issues 1. Legal Issues in Death and Dying: How Rights and Autonomy Have Shaped Clinical Practice 2. “So What Do You Want Us to Do?” Patients’ Rights, Unintended Consequences, and the Surrogate’s Role 3. Death at the Beginning: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 4. Dying Children and the Kindness of Strangers 5. Medical Futility and Potentially Inappropriate Treatment 6. Conscientious Objection 7. Continuous Sedation at the End of Life 8. The Ethics of Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff 9. Disorders of Consciousness and Neuro-​Palliative Care: Toward an Expanded Scope of Practice for the Field 10. Ethical Issues in Prognosis and Prognostication Section II Theoretical, Cultural, and Psychosocial Issues 11. The Smell of Chlorine: Coming to Terms with Death 12. Talking and Working with Dying Patients: True Grief and Loss 13. The Nature of Suffering 14. On Our Difficulties Speaking to and About the Dying 15. The Cost of Dying Among the Elderly in the United States: Ethical Issues 16. Death, Dying, and the Disabled 17. The Effect of Social Media on End-​of-​Life Decision Making 18. Cultural Factors 19. Ethnicity as a Factor 20. Reframing Care in End-​of-​Life Care: Helpful Themes from a Catholic-​Christian Understanding of Death Section III Physician-​Assisted Death 21. Physician-​Assisted Death in the Netherlands 22. The Case Against Physician-​Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia 23. Goodbye, Thomas: The Case for Physician-​Assisted Dying 24. Depression and the Desire to Die Near the End of Life Section IV The Emergence of Palliative Care and Hospice 25. Hospice and Palliative Care: Developments, Differences, and Challenges 26. Potential Perils to the Promise of Specialty Palliative Care 27. Marketing Palliative Care Index This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. In this period, technology has radically changed medical practices and the way we die as structures of power have been reshaped by the rights claims of African Americans, women, gays, students, and, most relevant here, patients. Respecting patients' values has been recognized as the essential moral component of clinical decision-making. Technology's promise has been seen to have a dark side: it prolongs the dying process. For the first time in history, human beings have the ability control the timing of death. With this ability comes a responsibility that is awesome and inescapable. How we understand and manage this responsibility is the theme of this volume. The book comprises six sections. Section I examines how the law has helped shape clinical practice, emphasizing the roles of rights and patient autonomy. Section II focuses on specific clinical issues, including death and dying in children, continuous sedation as a way to relieve suffering at the end of life, and the problem of prognostication in patients who are thought to be dying. Section III considers psychosocial and cultural issues. Section IV discusses death and dying among various vulnerable populations such as the elderly and persons with disabilities. Section V deals with physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia (lethal injection). Finally, Section VI looks at hospice and palliative care as a way to address the psychosocial and ethical problems of death and dying. This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. The chapters examine a range of ethical topics related to death, dying, palliative care and decision-making at the end of life.