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Terminal illness : opposing viewpoints / Mary E. Williams, book editor. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)Publication details: San Diego, California : Greenhaven Press, (c)2001.Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780737705256
  • 9780737705263
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • R726.W725.T476 2001
  • R726
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Contents:
Marilyn Webb -- Hospice care may not benefit the terminally ill Felicia Ackerman -- Dying at home benefits the terminally ill Bill Berlow -- Home caregivers' needs should be respected Danna Syltebo -- Patients should be given better treatments for pain Part I: Ellen Goodman; Part II: Warren E. Leary -- Patients should be given more control over their deaths Faye Girsh -- The medical community should emphasize pain treatment over euthanasia American Pain Society -- Effective pain treatment should not rule out euthanasia Bobbie Farsides -- Suffering should not be evaded Kirsten Backstrom -- Marijuana should be legalized for seriously ill and terminally ill patients Jerome P. Kassirer -- Marijuana should not be legalized for seriously ill and terminally ill patients Robert L. Maginnis -- Terminally ill people should plan for the end of life Roger C. Bone -- Dying should be seen as a time of growth Pythia Peay -- Withdrawing life support is acceptable Choice in Dying -- Acceptance of the withdrawal of life support could lead to the acceptance of euthanasia Charles E. Rice -- Physicians should not be allowed to prescribe lethal doses to terminally ill patients Tom A. Coburn -- Potentially lethal drugs are necessary to control the pain associated with terminal illness John A. Kitzhaber -- Euthanasia is morally permissible Frances M. Kamm -- Physicians should not be allowed to participate in euthanasia Alan B. Astrow -- The terminally ill should have access to assisted suicide Erdman B. Palmore -- The terminally ill should not have access to assisted suicide Wesley J. Smith -- Advance directives protect the right to die Don Udall -- Living wills do not protect the right to live Murray N. Rothbard -- The terminally ill may have a duty to die John Hardwig -- The terminally ill should not be pressured to die Part I: Nat Hentoff; Part II: Miguel A. Faria Jr.
How should the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness be addressed? -- Should physicians be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients? -- Do the terminally ill have the right to die?
Subject: Considers the following questions: How can care of the terminally ill be improved? How should the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness be addressed? Should physicians be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients? Do the terminally ill have the right to die?
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction R726.8.T4646 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001665096

Includes bibliographies and index.

Hospice care benefits the terminally ill Marilyn Webb -- Hospice care may not benefit the terminally ill Felicia Ackerman -- Dying at home benefits the terminally ill Bill Berlow -- Home caregivers' needs should be respected Danna Syltebo -- Patients should be given better treatments for pain Part I: Ellen Goodman; Part II: Warren E. Leary -- Patients should be given more control over their deaths Faye Girsh -- The medical community should emphasize pain treatment over euthanasia American Pain Society -- Effective pain treatment should not rule out euthanasia Bobbie Farsides -- Suffering should not be evaded Kirsten Backstrom -- Marijuana should be legalized for seriously ill and terminally ill patients Jerome P. Kassirer -- Marijuana should not be legalized for seriously ill and terminally ill patients Robert L. Maginnis -- Terminally ill people should plan for the end of life Roger C. Bone -- Dying should be seen as a time of growth Pythia Peay -- Withdrawing life support is acceptable Choice in Dying -- Acceptance of the withdrawal of life support could lead to the acceptance of euthanasia Charles E. Rice -- Physicians should not be allowed to prescribe lethal doses to terminally ill patients Tom A. Coburn -- Potentially lethal drugs are necessary to control the pain associated with terminal illness John A. Kitzhaber -- Euthanasia is morally permissible Frances M. Kamm -- Physicians should not be allowed to participate in euthanasia Alan B. Astrow -- The terminally ill should have access to assisted suicide Erdman B. Palmore -- The terminally ill should not have access to assisted suicide Wesley J. Smith -- Advance directives protect the right to die Don Udall -- Living wills do not protect the right to live Murray N. Rothbard -- The terminally ill may have a duty to die John Hardwig -- The terminally ill should not be pressured to die Part I: Nat Hentoff; Part II: Miguel A. Faria Jr.

How can care of the terminally ill be improved? -- How should the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness be addressed? -- Should physicians be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients? -- Do the terminally ill have the right to die?

Considers the following questions: How can care of the terminally ill be improved? How should the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness be addressed? Should physicians be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients? Do the terminally ill have the right to die?

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