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End of Life: Advance Care Planning
End of Life: Advance Care Planning The Ethics of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration – A Practical Guide Practical Bioethics, Vol 2, No. 2 and 3, Summer 2006 …
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End of Life: Treatment Redirection
End of Life: Treatment Redirection Authors explore the ethical considerations in terminal aggressive curative treatment and moving toward aggressive palliative care. Bioethics Forum Vol. 14 (2) Summer 1998 Treatment Redirection: Moving from…
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End of Life: Reflections on a Good Death
End of Life: Reflections on a Good Death Bioethics Forum Vol. 13 (1) Spring 1997 What Makes a Good Death? by Shana Alexander My Ideal Death by Nancy Pickard Good Death: Improving…
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End of Life Legislation in Missouri and Kansas
End of Life Legislation in Missouri and Kansas Befuddled with the laws in Missouri and Kansas regarding end-of-life decisions for you and your family? Officials in both states are working to ensure…
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Chronic Disease and Aging
Chronic Disease and Aging The overwhelming majority of Americans will die of complications from a chronic disease. At the same time, that overwhelming majority will pay little attention to what that means.…
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Hospice Care in Prison
Hospice Care in Prison Carol McAdoo, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, discusses end of life in prison and why hospice is needed there. (August 6, 2010)
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To Feed or Not to Feed?
To Feed or Not to Feed David Casarett, MD, Professor of Geriatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses progress regarding questions about when and when not to use artificial nutrition and hydration.…
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A Sociology of Aging
A Sociology of Aging Why are our senior citizens devalued? Do other societies treat their elderly better than we do? What ethical dimensions are involved here?
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Bioethical Issues in the Care of the Elderly
Bioethical Issues in the Care of the Elderly Ethical Dilemmas and Patient Choice: The New Challenge of Modern Health Care Steven A. Levenson argues that it is in our own best interest…
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Our Health Care System Cannot Afford Its Customers
Our Health Care System Cannot Afford Its Customers Morton Creditor questions why medical care in the United States is totally inappropriate in addressing the needs of its major customer, the aged, and…
