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Despite the best efforts of medical ethicists over the past quarter century, the ethical challenges surrounding dying and death in the clinical setting remain largely unresolved, and little sustained attention has been paid to how thinking about death relates to and affects clinical practice. The reality is that people die, and that dying patients are not people for whom nothing can be done. Death in the Clinic provides medical students, residents, and educators a framework within which to explore and address this reality, while existential and philosophical questions about death will recommend the book to chaplains, social workers, palliative care clinicians, nurses, and clinical ethicists. Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The Public Meaning of Death
Chapter 3 Some Reflections on Whether Death is Bad
Chapter 4 Defining Death
Part 5 Facing Death in the Clinic
Chapter 6 Against the Right to Die
Chapter 7 The Skull at the Banquet
Chapter 8 Influence of Mental Illnes on Decision-Making at the End of Life
Chapter 9 Creative Adaptation in Aging and Dying: Ethical Imperative or Impossible Dream?
Chapter 10 Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Not a Metaphor for End-of-Life-Care
Chapter 11 After Death: Respect and Cultural Norms
Chapter 12 Training on Newly Deceased Patients: An Ethical Analysis
Chapter 13 Appendix: Abstracts of the Chapters
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Dec 01 2005
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 172
ISBN 9780742535091
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Lynn A. Jansen

Contributor

David Barnard

Contributor

Celia Berdes

Contributor

James L. Bernat

Contributor

Linda Emanuel

Contributor

Robert Fogerty

Contributor

Linda Ganzini

Contributor

David J. Mayo

Contributor

John Paris

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