Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care (eBook)

Training and Implementing Change

Pierre Mallia, Nathan Emmerich, Bert Gordijn, Francesca Pistoia (Herausgeber)

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2022
241 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-86386-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care and asks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject. Though ethics consultation is a growing practice in medical contexts, difficult questions surrounding the role of ethicists in professional decision-making remain. The chapters in this book examine the nature and plausibility of moral expertise, the relationship between character and expertise, the nature and limits of moral authority, the question of how one might become a moral expert, and the trustworthiness of moral testimony. This volume not only engages with the growing literature in the debate on end-of-life care but also offers new perspectives from both academics and practitioners. Such perspectives include ways on how to get together to optimize end-of-life care. This book is of particular interest to bioethicists, clinicians, ethics committees, students of social epistemology, patient groups, and institutions, especially religious, who may not be sufficiently imparting the social teachings of end-of-life care. It also shows how they are indeed stakeholders for what is today called ‘a good death’. These new essays advance discussions and provide practical information on dying as well as acting as a guide to those interested in actively effecting change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Advancing Global Bioethics
• Reihe/Serie: Advancing Global Bioethics
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 241 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Schlagworte: cultural and social issues of end of life care • end of life care • end of life challenges • ethics of family medicine • global health in the dying process • harmonsing end of life care • legal gaps in end of life • medical decision-making • refusal of treatment • what is a good death?
• ISBN-10: 3-030-86386-7 / 3030863867
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-86386-9 / 9783030863869