Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Taboada, Paulina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 116
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Public health.; Medical laws and legislation.; Public Health.; Medical Law.

The book’s main contribution is its interdisciplinary approach to the issue of sedation at the end-of-life. Because it occurs at the end of life, palliative sedation raises a number of important ethical and legal questions, including whether it is a covert form of euthanasia and for what purposes it...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Chapter: Sedation at the end of life. Clinical settings, trends and current debate; Paulina Taboada
• 2 Chapter: Palliative Sedation and the Goals of Care at the End of Life; William Sullivan
• 3 Chapter: Clinical Aspects of Palliative Sedation for Refractory Symptoms; Paul Walker
•  4. Chapter: The use of palliative sedation to treat existential suffering:  a reconsideration; Aron Portnoy, Punam Rana, Camilla Zimmermann & Gary Rodin
• 5. Chapter: The Relevance of Double Effect to Decisions about Sedation at the End of Life; Joseph Boyle
• 6. Chapter: The field of application of the principle f double effect and the problem of palliative sedation; Alejandro Miranda
• 7. Chapter: The ‘sanctity of life’, ‘best interests’ and ‘autonomy’: An ethical and legal clarification; John Keown
• 8. Chapter: Palliative Sedation. Some juridical preventions for the Chilean case; Ángela Vivanco
• 9. Chapter: Clinical guidelines for the use of Palliative Sedation: moving from contention to consensus; Blair Henry
• 10. Chapter: The case against clinical guidelines for Palliative Sedation; John Scott. 11. Chapter:  Ethical analysis of selected clinical cases; Paulina Taboada
• Epilogue; Paulina Taboada
• Index.