Palliative Care and End-Of-Life Decisions

by George P. Smith II and G. Smith

Book Overview

George P. Smith's Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions completes a Bioethics-Health Care epistemology begun in 1989, which addresses the specific issue of managing palliative care at the end-stage of life. Smith argues forcefully that in order to palliate the whole person (encompassing physical and psychological states), an ethic of adjusted care requires recognition of a fundamental right to avoid cruel and unusual suffering from terminal illness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137379154
• ISBN13: 9781137379153
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"