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Improving end of life care : why has it been so difficult? / edited by Bruce Jennings, Gregory E. Kaebnick, and Thomas H. Murray ; contributors, Adrienne Asch [and others].

Title
  1. Improving end of life care : why has it been so difficult? / edited by Bruce Jennings, Gregory E. Kaebnick, and Thomas H. Murray ; contributors, Adrienne Asch [and others].
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  1. Garrison, N.Y. : Hastings Center, 2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Jennings, Bruce, 1949-
  2. Kaebnick, Gregory E.
  3. Murray, Thomas H., 1946-
  4. Hastings Center
Description
  1. 60 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Series statement
  1. Hastings Center special report ; Nov./Dec. 2005
Uniform title
  1. Hastings Center special report Nov./Dec.
Subject
  1. Terminally ill > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  2. Terminal care > Law and legislation > United States
  3. Terminal care facilities > United States
  4. Death > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
  5. Terminal Care > standards
  6. Palliative Care > standards
  7. Life Support Care > standards
  8. Quality of Health Care > standards
  9. Équipements de soins en phase terminale > États-Unis
  10. Mort > Aspect moral > États-Unis
  11. Death > Moral and ethical aspects
  12. Terminal care facilities
  13. Terminal care > Law and legislation
  14. Terminally ill > Legal status, laws, etc
  15. United States
Contents
  1. Preface / Bruce Jennings -- Death: "The Distinguished Thing" / Daniel Callahan -- The end of autonomy / Robert A. Burt -- Living long in fragile health : the new demographics shape end of life care / Joanne Lynn -- Conflict and consensus at the end of life / Nancy Neveloff Dubler -- Hope for the future : achieving the original intent of advance directives / Susan E. Hickman [and others] -- Recognizing death while affirming life: can end of life reform uphold a disabled person's interest in continued life? / Adrienne Asch -- Making room for dying : end of life care in nursing homes / Sandra H. Johnson -- The past and future of palliative care / Kathleen M. Foley -- The role of litigation in end of life care: a reappraisal / Alan Meisel -- The quest to reform end of life care: rethinking assumptions and setting new directions / Thomas H. Murray and Bruce Jennings -- Selected references -- End of life care resources.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Cover title.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-59).
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also available via World Wide Web.
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