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Aging: Decisions at the End of Life

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-481-5898-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erscheinungstermin: 04.12.2010
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is the last volume in a trilogy on conceived for the . Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving end-of-life care, palliative care, euthanasia, and consent to research.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789048158980
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-481-5898-0
  • Verlag: Springer Netherlands
  • Erscheinungstermin: 04.12.2010
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2002
  • Serie: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Previously published in hardcover
  • Gewicht: 690 g
  • Seiten: 264
  • Format (B x H x T): 210 x 279 x 16 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Quality of Life.- How we think (deeply but with limits) about quality of life: The necessity of wisdom for aging.- Ethics and quality of life in the elderly.- Palliative Care.- Palliative care: A weak link in the chain of civilized life.- Assisted Death.- Assisted death in the Netherlands and its relationship with age.- Why euthanasia should not be legalized: A reflection on the Dutch experiment.- Managing death: End-of-life charades and decisions.- Challenges and dilemmas in the “aging and euthanasia” policy cocktail.- Suicide.- End-of-life decisions in terminal illness: A psychiatric perspective.- Suicide: Implications for an aging society.- Research Ethics.- Research on elderly subjects: Striking the right balance.- Community consent for research on the impaired elderly.- Regulating ethical research involving cognitively impaired elderly subjects: Canada as a case study.