The ethics of terminal care [electronic resource] : orchestrating the end of life / Erich H. Loewy and Roberta Springer Loewy.

Dying, Death and Attitudes
The Social Context in America Today
What We Think Dying and Being Dead is Like
Physicians' Obligations
The Centrality of Suffering
Questions, Methods and the Problem of Autonomy
A Brief Word about Theory
Concepts of Life and Art
Identified and Unidentified Lives at the End of Life
Autonomy, Competency and Decisional Capacity
Extended Autonomy and Advance Directives
The Questions we Need to Ask, the Method we Might Use
Judging According to the Patient's Interests and Setting Other Interests Aside
Is that Possible?
Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants
The Concept of Orchestrating Death
Conceptual, Linguistic and Educational Problems
Relationships and talking with patients
The Score and the Music
Conductors
Players
The Concert Hall
Conflicts
Putting It all Together
Sudden Death and the End of Life
Orchestration in Situations of Sudden or Rapid Death
Surrogates
Futility
Autopsy
Organ Donation
Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Suicide and Letting Die
Terminal Sedation and Self-Starvation
Harming Patients
Separate Questions in the Euthanasia Debate
Holocausts, Genocides and What Can Be Learned
Hospice and the End of Life
Hospice: Philosophical Ideals and Practical Realities
The Patient's "Good," the "Good" Patient and the Pitfalls of Orchestrating Clinical Expertise
Challenges for Tomorrow: Where Do We Go from Here?
Educating Health Care Professionals.