Aging: Decisions at the End of Life

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving end-of-life care, palliative care, euthanasia, and consent to research.

List of contents

Quality of Life.- How we think (deeply but with limits) about quality of life: The necessity of wisdom for aging.- Ethics and quality of life in the elderly.- Palliative Care.- Palliative care: A weak link in the chain of civilized life.- Assisted Death.- Assisted death in the Netherlands and its relationship with age.- Why euthanasia should not be legalized: A reflection on the Dutch experiment.- Managing death: End-of-life charades and decisions.- Challenges and dilemmas in the "aging and euthanasia" policy cocktail.- Suicide.- End-of-life decisions in terminal illness: A psychiatric perspective.- Suicide: Implications for an aging society.- Research Ethics.- Research on elderly subjects: Striking the right balance.- Community consent for research on the impaired elderly.- Regulating ethical research involving cognitively impaired elderly subjects: Canada as a case study.

Summary

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving end-of-life care, palliative care, euthanasia, and consent to research.

Product details

• Assisted by: Davi C Thomasma (Editor), David C Thomasma (Editor), S. Gauthier (Editor), Serge Gauthier (Editor), S Gauthier et al (Editor), David C. Thomasma (Editor), G. F. Tomossy (Editor), G.F. Tomossy (Editor), George F. Tomossy (Editor), D. N. Weisstub (Editor), D.N. Weisstub (Editor), David N. Weisstub (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048158980
• ISBN: 978-90-481-5898-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Illustrations: XIV, 264 p.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine; International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine; "International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine "
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; C, aging, Medicine, Medicine: general issues, Bioethics, Ageing, Public International Law, Medical Ethics, Age groups: the elderly, medical law, Age groups: adults, Medical & healthcare law, Medical laws and legislation, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, death;end-of-life decisions;ethics