Palliative Care Ethics: A Companion for All Specialties

by R.S. Downie, Fiona Randall, R. S. Downie

Palliative care is a rapidly growing area within health care and one in which there are many ethical dilemmas. Chronically and terminally ill patients increasingly wish to take control of their own lives and deaths, resources are scarce and technology has created controversial life-prolonging treatment. This book has been written by a clinician and a teacher and writer of health care ethics to provide all those who care for the terminally ill - doctors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192630687
• ISBN13: 9780192630681
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"