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Decision making near the end of life : issues, developments, and future directions

Title
  1. Decision making near the end of life : issues, developments, and future directions / edited by James L. Werth, Jr. and Dean Blevins.
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  1. New York : Routledge, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional authors
  1. Werth, James L.
  2. Blevins, Dean.
Description
  1. xxv, 390 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. The series in death, dying, and bereavement
Uniform title
  1. Series in death, dying, and bereavement.
Subject
  1. Terminal care > Decision making
  2. Terminal Care > ethics
  3. Decision Making
  4. Terminally Ill
  5. United States
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. Introduction / Dean Blevins and James L. Werth, Jr. -- Ch. 2. Adolescent end-of-life decision making : family-centered advance care planning / Richard Lyon and Maureen E. Lyon -- Ch. 3. The grip of pain / Jonathon D. Spannhake -- Ch. 4. Decision making in the absence of advance directives : a personal story of letting go / Laura Crow -- Ch. 5. A hastened death / Nicola G. Raye -- Ch. 6. How people die in the United States / Marilyn J. Field -- Ch. 7. The media and end-of-life choices and decisions / Marilyn Webb -- Ch. 8. Three female faces : the law of end-of-life decision making in America / Kathy L. Cerminara -- Ch. 9. End-of-life choices / Phillip M. Kleespies, Pamela J. Miller and Thomas A. Preston -- Ch. 10. Decision making in palliative care / Victor T. Chang and Nethra Sambamoorthi -- Ch. 11. Communication related to end-of-life care and decisions / Ellen L. Csikai -- Ch. 12. Dying in institutions / Suzanne S. Prevost and J. Brandon Wallace -- Ch. 13. What would Terri want? : advance directives and the psychological challenges of surrogate decision making / Peter H. Ditto -- Ch. 14. The possible impact of mental health issues on end-of-life decision making / James L. Worth, Jr. -- Ch. 15. Family end-of-life decision making / Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio -- Ch. 16. Religious and spiritual perspectives on life-threatening illness, dying, and death / Kenneth J. Doka -- Ch. 17. Culture, individual diversity, and end-of-life decisions / Bert Hayslip, Jr., Robert O. Hansson, Jon D. Starkweather and Diana C. Dolan -- Ch. 18. Decisions by and for adults with questionable mental capacity : focus on dementia / Ladislav Volicer -- Ch. 19. Pediatric patient-oriented problem solving near the end of life / Chris Feudtner and Anne E. Kazak.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.