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Zusatztext If you want to know more about the genesis of wishes to die, and some guidance as to how we might best deal with them, both as individual healthcare practitioners and as a society, then you will find this book of interest. Informationen zum Autor Christoph Rehmann-Sutter is Professor of Theory and Ethics in the Biosciences at the University of Lübeck in Germany and is also a visiting professor at King's College, London. After a diploma in molecular biology, he studied philosophy and sociology. In 1996 he founded the Unit of Bioethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and he was president of the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics from 2001 to 2009. Current research interests include the anthropology of genomics, the ethics of transplantation of blood stem cells between siblings, and moral issues in end-of-life care. He has published more than 200 scholarly papers.Heike Gudat is physician and specialised in palliative care. Since 2000 she has been the medical head of the HOSPIZ IM PARK, an independent hospital for palliative and end of life care in the region of Basel, Switzerland. After medical education at the University of Basel 1988 she specialised in internal medicine, also experiencing the special fields of rehabilitation, gerontology and hematology. From 1992-1994 studies of experimental cytogenetics at the University of Lübeck (Prof. Ch. Fonatsch), supported by the Swiss National Foundation. Since 1996 specialisation in palliative care. Within regular teaching activities Heike Gudat has a teaching assignment for palliative care at the University of Basel. Together with Settimio Monteverde she developed interdisciplinary palliative care training courses for primary care professionals. Current research interests include wishes to die in end of life care situations and implementation of palliative care in family medicine.Kathrin Ohnsorge is a researcher in bioethics currently working at the HOSPIZ IM PARK, a hospice close to Basel in Switzerland. After her graduation in philosophy, she obtained a European Master in Bioethics from the Universities of Leuven, Nijmengen, Basel and Padua. From 2001 to 2012, she worked at the University of Basel in various research projects regarding ethical issues in end-of-life care. Her current research interests are in ethical issues in end-of-life care and long term care and in narrative and hermeneutic approaches to bioethics. She teaches also bioethics in two postgraduate programs at the University of Padua. Klappentext It presents the best available knowledge and research methodologies about patients' wishes at the end-of-life, together with a series of ethical views and a discussion about the clinical implications for palliative care. Zusammenfassung It presents the best available knowledge and research methodologies about patients' wishes at the end-of-life, together with a series of ethical views and a discussion about the clinical implications for palliative care. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section One: Introduction 1: Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Gudat, Kathrin Ohnsorge: Opening: Why is it important to know about patients' wishes to die Section Two: Research 2: Yasmin Gunaratnam: Illness narratives, meaning making and epistemic injustice in research at the end of life 3: Nessa Coyle and Lois Sculco: Expressed desire for hastened death: a phenomenological inquiry 4: Nessa Coyle: Commentary: 10 years later - a nursing perspective 5: Luc Deliens and Tinne Smets: Euthanasia (requests) after the implementation of the euthanasia law in 2002 in Belgium. Results of empirical studies in Flanders, Belgium 6: Tracy A. Schroepfer: The journey to understanding the wish to hasten death 7: Rinat Nissim, Chris Lo, and Gary Rodin: The desire for hastened death in patients in palliative care 8: Kathrin Ohnsorge: Intentions, motivations and social interactions regarding a wish to ...
