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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Palliative care ethics
    sub title: a companion for all specialties
  name:
    name part: Randall, Fiona.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1999
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Ch. 1. Ethics and aims in palliative care -- The senses of 'ethics' -- The main tradition -- Teams and the nursing profession -- Patients' rights and autonomy -- Utility and justice -- Compassion, the virtues, and self-development -- The aims of palliative care: personal, intrinsic, and extrinsic -- Whole person care -- Relatives -- Ethics and aims -- Conclusions -- Ch. 2. The patient-carer relationship -- The patient's aims in the relationship -- The carer's aim in the relationship -- 'Relativity' in the carer-patient encounter -- Models of the carer-patient relationship -- Consent -- Conclusions -- Ch. 3. The relative-professional relationship -- The relatives as co-carers -- The relatives as decision makers -- The relatives as beneficiaries of professional care -- Attitudes in the relative-professional relationship -- Conclusions -- Ch. 4. Teamwork -- Why do we work in teams? -- Common problems in specialist palliative care teams -- Patient-centred or management-centred teams -- Working in a patient-centred team -- Collective responsibility -- Moral conflict in the team -- Moral deficiency -- Caring for each other -- Conclusions -- Ch. 5. Process of clinical decision making -- Responsibility and outcome -- Responsiblity and process -- Three logical distinctions in decision making -- Formal guides to clinical decision making -- Conclusions -- Ch. 6. Giving information -- The professional responsibility -- Whom do we tell? -- The influence of relatives -- How the truth is told -- Standards of disclosure -- Moral difficulties in giving information -- Conclusions -- Ch. 7. Confidentiality -- The moral basis for rules of confidentiality in palliative care -- What constitutes confidential information? -- Sharing confidential information -- Disclosure of information to third parties -- Confidentiality and the non-autonomous patient -- Justifications for infringements of confidentiality -- Conclusions -- Ch. 8. Clinical treatment decisions -- Distinctions between medical…
  note: Fiona Randall and R.S. Downie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-307) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics, Medical
  subject:
    topic: Palliative Care
  subject:
    topic: Confidentiality
  subject:
    topic: Decision Making
  subject:
    topic: Physician-Patient Relations
  classification: R726 .R35 1999
  classification: 362.1/75
  classification: 1999 J-455
  classification: W 50 R188p 1999
  identifier: 0192630687 (pbk. : acid-free)
  identifier: 99020410
  record info:
    record content source: DNLM/DLC
    record creation date: 000121
    record change date: 20210818135245.0
    record identifier: in00004489471