"The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook provides a complete examination of right-to-die issues in the United States that dissects the complex arguments for and against a person's liberty to receive a physician's assistance to hasten death. It covers the legal aspects and the pol…
This unusual and timely book presents three prize-winning, one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families, and their physicians often face at the end of life. Each play is followed by a critical commentary, with suggestions for staging and follow-up discussions.…
What is premature discontinuation and why does it occur -- Predictors of premature discontinuation in psychotherapy -- Provide role induction -- Incorporate preferences into the treatment decision-making process -- Assist in planning for appropriate termination -- Provide educat…
A dialogue between contemporary, Western moral philosophy and the tradition of Legal/Moral Descourse (Halakha).
"Empirical evidence shows that treatment failure is a significant problem and one that practitioners routinely overlook. A substantial minority of patients either fail to gain a benefit from the treatments offered to them, or they outright worsen by the time they leave treatment…
Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the 'Persistent Vegetative State' (PVS) has established itself as an apparently discrete medical condition with clear-…
While some commentators consider appeals to human dignity to be little more than rhetoric and not worthy of serious consideration, this text give such appeals defensible meaning through an application of the moral theory of Alan Gewirth.
