Ethics in palliative care / Robert C. Macauley.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

xx, 548 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethics and palliative care -- Overview of ethical approaches -- Advance care planning and surrogate decision making -- Specific ethical issues at the end of life -- The "right to die" -- Forgoing life-sustaining medical treatment -- Pain and symptom management at the end of life -- Physician assisted death -- Palliative sedation -- Overview of pediatric ethics and palliative care -- Ethics of prenatal palliative care -- Neonatal -- Ethics of child and adolescent palliative care -- Requests for non-beneficial treatment -- Neuro-palliative care -- Death and organ donation -- Research in palliative care -- Final thoughts.