| Description |
208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Opposing viewpoints |
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Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hospice care benefits the terminally ill / Marilyn Webb -- Hospice care may not benefit the terminally ill / Felicia Ackerman -- Dying at home benefits the terminally ill / Bill Berlow -- Home caregivers' needs should be respected / Danna Syltebo -- Patients should be given better treatments for pain / Part I: Ellen Goodman; Part II: Warren E. Leary -- Patients should be given more control over their deaths / Faye Girsh -- The medical community should emphasize pain treatment over euthanasia / American Pain Society -- Effective pain treatment should not rule out euthanasia / Bobbie Farsides --Suffering should not be evaded / Kirsten Backstrom -- Marijuana should be legalized for seriously ill and terminally ill patients / Jerome P. Kassirer -- Marijuana should not be legalized for seriously ill and terminally ill patients / Robert L. Maginnis -- Terminally ill people should plan for the end of life / Roger C. Bone -- Dying should be seen as a time of growth / Pythia Peay -- Withdrawing life support is acceptable / Choice in Dying -- Acceptance of the withdrawal of life support could lead to the acceptance of euthanasia / Charles E. Rice -- Physicians should not be allowed to prescribe lethal doses to terminally ill patients / Tom A. Coburn -- Potentially lethal drugs are necessary to control the pain associated with terminal illness / John A. Kitzhaber -- Euthanasia is morally permissible / Frances M. Kamm -- Physicians should not be allowed to participate in euthanasia / Alan B. Astrow -- The terminally ill should have access to assisted suicide / Erdman B. Palmore -- The terminally ill should not have access to assisted suicide / Wesley J. Smith -- Advance directives protect the right to die / Don Udall -- Living wills do not protect the right to live / Murray N. Rothbard -- The terminally ill may have a duty to die / John Hardwig -- The terminally ill should not be pressured to die / Part I: Nat Hentoff; Part II: Miguel A. Faria Jr. |
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How can care of the terminally ill be improved? -- How should the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness be addressed? -- Should physicians be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients? -- Do the terminally ill have the right to die? |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Terminal care -- Miscellanea.
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Death -- Miscellanea.
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Right to die -- Miscellanea.
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Euthanasia -- Miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Mary E., 1960-
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| ISBN |
0737705256 paperback alkaline paper |
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0737705264 library binding alkaline paper |
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