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Aging: Decisions at the End of Life

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  1. David N. Weisstub

    1. Faculté de Médicine, Université de Montréal, Canada

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  2. David C. Thomasma

    1. Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center, USA

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  3. Serge Gauthier

    1. Centre for Studies on Aging, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada

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  4. George F. Tomossy

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 12)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Quality of Life

    1. How We Think (Deeply but with Limits) about Quality of Life

      • Peter J. Whitehouse, Jesse Ballenger, Sid Katz
      Pages 1-19

    2. Ethics and Quality of Life in the Elderly

      • Fernando Lolas
      Pages 21-30

  3. Palliative Care

    1. Palliative Care

      • Linda L. Emanuel
      Pages 31-47

  4. Assisted Death

    2. Why Euthanasia Should not be Legalized

      • Henk Jochemsen
      Pages 67-90

    3. Managing Death

      • George P. Smith II
      Pages 91-106

  5. Suicide

    1. End-of-Life Decisions in Terminal Illness

      • Lorraine Sherr, Fabrizio Starace
      Pages 139-154

    2. Suicide

      • Naoki Watanabe, Manabu Taguchi, Kazuo Hasegawa
      Pages 155-169

  6. Research Ethics

    1. Research on Elderly Subjects

      • Arthur Schafer
      Pages 171-205

    3. Regulating Ethical Research Involving Cognitively Impaired Elderly Subjects

      • George F. Tomossy, David N. Weisstub, Serge Gauthier
      Pages 227-254

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 255-263
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About this book

Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving end-of-life care, palliative care, euthanasia, and consent to research.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculté de Médicine, Université de Montréal, Canada

    David N. Weisstub

  • Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center, USA

    David C. Thomasma

  • Centre for Studies on Aging, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada

    Serge Gauthier

  • Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia

    George F. Tomossy

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Aging: Decisions at the End of Life

  • Editors: David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma, Serge Gauthier, George F. Tomossy

  • Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9682-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0182-6Published: 30 November 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5898-0Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9682-4Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1567-8008

  • Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 264

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Aging, Medical Law, Public International Law

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