Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide 2018

No specialty faces more diverse and difficult ethical dilemmas than palliative medicine. What is the best way to plan for the end of life? How should doctors respond when patients refuse treatment that may be beneficial, or when they demand treatment that is unlikely to be beneficial? Who makes medical decisions for patients who are too ill to decide for themselves? Do patients have a 'right to die' (and if so, what does this actually mean)? In this volume, the aforementioned palliative care physician and bioethicist Robert C. Macauley addresses a wide range of issues from historical, legal, clinical and ethical perspectives.