Through the valley of shadows : living wills, intensive care, and making medicine human /

In place of living wills, which have fundamentally misunderstood the problems people face during life-threatening illness, researcher and practicing ICU physician Samuel Morris Brown advocates a system of individualized guidance alongside fundamental reform. In this provocative and empathetic book,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Samuel Morris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Living wills > Moral and ethical aspects.
Critical care medicine > Psychological aspects.
Terminal care.
Physician and patient.
Hospice care.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Patient participation.
Living Wills > ethics
Attitude to Death
Critical Care > psychology
Patient Participation
Right to Die > ethics
Terminal Care
Hospice Care
Physician-Patient Relations
Testament biologique > Aspect moral.
Soins intensifs > Aspect psychologique.
Soins en phase terminale.
Relations médecin-patient.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Participation des patients.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Patient participation
Hospice care
Death > Psychological aspects
Critical care medicine > Psychological aspects
Physician and patient
Terminal care
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A culture in crisis
  • The rise of the living will
  • Empirical and ethical problems with living wills
  • Living wills don't make decisions : human beings do
  • The barbaric life of the ICU
  • Life after the ICU
  • Reform : the current state of the art
  • Healing the intensive care unit.

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