Death in the Clinic
Despite the best efforts of medical ethicists over the past quarter century, the ethical challenges surrounding dying and death in the clinical setting remain largely unresolved, and little sustained attention has been paid to how thinking about death relates to and affects clinical practice. The reality is that people die, and that dying patients are not people for whom nothing can be done. Death in the Clinic provides medical students, residents, and educators a framework within which to...
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Death in the Clinic fills a gap in contemporary medical education by explicitly addressing the concrete clinical realities about death with which practitioners, patients, and their families continue to wrestle. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Introduction11Some reflections on whether death is bad172Defining death273Against the right to die494The skull at the banquet665Influence of mental illness on decision making at the end of life816Creative adaptation in aging and dying : ethical imperative or impossible dream?977Rage, rage against the dying of the light : not a metaphor for end-of-life care1188Training on newly deceased patients : an ethical analysis135
\ Sociology Of Health And IllnessThis wide-ranging edited collection provides the reader with ethical perspectives on death and dying that are focused on concrete, 'everyday' concerns in clinical settings. The book is aimed at all professional groups who work in the field of death and dying, although its primary focus is on the needs of physicians and medical students....The strength of this book is that it places ethics on the agenda in a way that aims to provide a practical guide to end-of-life challenges.\ \ \ \ \ Sociology of Health and IllnessThis wide-ranging edited collection provides the reader with ethical perspectives on death and dying that are focused on concrete, 'everyday' concerns in clinical settings. The book is aimed at all professional groups who work in the field of death and dying, although its primary focus is on the needs of physicians and medical students....The strength of this book is that it places ethics on the agenda in a way that aims to provide a practical guide to end-of-life challenges.\ \
