Palliative Care Ethics: A Good Companion

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

Book Overview

Palliative care is a recent branch of health care. The doctors, nurses, and other professionals involved in it took their inspiration from the medieval idea of the hospice, but have now extended their expertise to every area of health care: surgeries, nursing homes, acute wards, and the community. This has happened during a period when patients wish to take more control over their own lives and deaths, resources have become scarce, and technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192626329
• ISBN13: 9780192626325
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"