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Palliative sedation (sedation causing unconsciousness) as an option of last resort for intractable end-of-life suffering has been the subject of ongoing discussion and debate, as well as policy formulation. A particularly controversial...

This book explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health and health policy may look different in infectious diseases. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognise that the patient with...

2018 Colleen M.Marty, Brian S.Carter The perinatal world is unique in its conscientious consideration of two patients in decision-making and clinical management - the fetus and the pregnant woman. The potential of the fetal-newborn is intertwined with the absolute...

K. Danner Clouser is one of the most important figures in establishing and shaping the fields of medical ethics, bioethics and philosophy of education in the second half of the 20th century. Clouser challenged many established approaches to moral theory and proposed innovative...

This book provides students with the theoretical basis and practical applications for acting on their values in situations of ethical conflict. It is the first book on medical ethics to use the Giving Voice to Values methodology to...

Palliative care is required for incurable advanced-stage cancer and other incurable chronic diseases. Various aspects of palliative care, such as pain and symptom control, psychosocial care and end-of-life issues,...

This textbook is a challenging and engaging introduction to more advanced work in medical law and ethics, the main aim of which is to enable students to 'get under the skin' of the subject and begin to develop critical thinking skills and...

Letting Go shows how to start thinking about the final stage of life before you get there, how to formulate a will that helps people make decisions on our behalf and how we can maintain our dignity and independence for as long as possible. Drawing on...

This collection of essays explores a fundamental concept that is central to today's discourse in law and ethics in general, and bioethics in particular. In this volume, scholars in philosophy, medicine and medical ethics, law, political science and social policy...

This book describes what dying looks like from the perspective of nine terminally ill people and their carers. Documenting a unique study of end-of-life experiences, which included detailed interviews in a residential care setting, the book focuses on how...

Huge advances in medical science over several years have prompted consideration of the use of the right to life in medical practice. It has been recognised that the moral rights enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath serve ethical dilemmas in public life. The concept of the 'right to life' in...

This book examines in detail the paradox of 'moral happiness' , relating it to the Kantian, consequentialist and virtue approach to ethics. Dickenson applies the paradoxes of risk and luck to medical ethics, including a timely discussion of risk and luck in the allocation of...

Intensive care units have changed - and not always for the better. In this provocative and empathetic book, medical researcher and ICU doctor Samuel Morris Brown uses 215 stories from his clinical practice to outline a new way of thinking about illness....

From plastic surgery to euthanasia, Daniel Sokol offers a unique insight into the world of medical ethics. Drawing on his background as a leading medical ethicist and advocate, as well as his years of experience in frontline hospitals, he sheds light on...

With many jurisdictions considering new legislation on assisted dying, this book is a timely look at the subject for teenage readers who may not yet have had much experience of death and...