Sedation, Suicide, and the Limits of Ethics (eBook)

James A. Dunson III (Autor)

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2017
142 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9922-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide and continuous sedation. He argues that ethical debates currently ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience should instead be prioritized and used to inform policy development.

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In this book, James Dunson explores end-of-life ethics including physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and continuous sedation until death. He argues that ethical debates currently ignore the experience of the dying patient in an effort to focus on policy creation, and proposes that the dying experience should instead be prioritized and used to inform policy development. The author makes the case that PAS should be recognized as a legally and morally permissible option for a very particular kind of patient: terminally ill with fewer than six months to live and capable of conscious consent. Since focusing on the patient's experience of this end-of-life dilemma transforms some of the basic concepts we use to engage in the PAS debate, the argument has implications for patient care and the training of medical professionals.

Autor

James A. Dunson III is associate professor of philosophy at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: An Alternative Defense of Physician-Assisted SuicideChapter 2: Ready to Die—An Existential DilemmaChapter 3: Using and Abusing the Doctrine of Double EffectChapter 4: On Suicide, Acceptance, and ControlChapter 5: Bones, Sinews, and the SelfChapter 6: Pedagogy and the Limits of EthicsBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2017
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Schlagworte: Applied Ethics • Bioethics • Death • Doctrine of Double Effect • End of Life • ethics • health policy • Informed Consent • Moral Philosophy • Mortality • nonmalfeasance • physician-assisted suicide • Right to Die
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9922-6 / 0739199226
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9922-0 / 9780739199220