End of life choices —— Consensus and controversy

----- 生命选择的终结

ISBN: 9780199547333 出版年：2011 页码：269 Randall, Fiona Downie, Robin Oxford University Press

PART 1 Introduction 1. Patient choice and consent 2. Choice and best interests: clinical decision-making in end of life care 3. Three logical distinctions in decision-making 4. Choice and best interests: life-prolonging treatments 5. Choice and best interests: symptom control and the maintenance of function 6. Choice and best interests: sedation to relieve otherwise intractable symptoms (terminal sedation) Conclusions to Part 1 PART 2 - CONTROVERSIES Introduction 7. Choice and advance care planning: definition, professional responsibility 8. Preferred place of care and death 9. Choice, assisted suicide and euthanasia 10. Best interests: extended senses General conclusions