Overview
- Contains essays on the problems of end of life care from a global perspective
- Discusses topics, including communication skills, advanced care planning, home care, and many more
- Aimed at ethicists, academics, medical leaders, patient groups
Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 17)
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This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care and asks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject. Though ethics consultation is a growing practice in medical contexts, difficult questions surrounding the role of ethicists in professional decision-making remain. The chapters in this book examine the nature and plausibility of moral expertise, the relationship between character and expertise, the nature and limits of moral authority, the question of how one might become a moral expert, and the trustworthiness of moral testimony. This volume not only engages with the growing literature in the debate on end-of-life care but also offers new perspectives from both academics and practitioners. Such perspectives include ways on how to get together to optimize end-of-life care. This book is of particular interest to bioethicists, clinicians, ethics committees, students of social epistemology, patient groups, and institutions, especially religious, who may not be sufficiently imparting the social teachings of end-of-life care. It also shows how they are indeed stakeholders for what is today called ‘a good death’. These new essays advance discussions and provide practical information on dying as well as acting as a guide to those interested in actively effecting change.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Ethical and Social Issues
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Professional Issues
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Medico-Legal Proposals
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Implementing-Change Pathways
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathan Emmerich is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at the Australian National University. Based in the Medical School he is the lead for Professionalism and Leadership in Phase one of the M.Ch.D. Previously he has been a postdoctoral research in the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University, and a Visting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. Whilst at DUC he was part of a project on ethics and end of life care and his recent publications have focused on this area. More generally, his research falls under the broad rubric of Bioethics. His background is in philosophy and 'applied ethics', his interests are interdisciplinary.
Bert Gordijn is Professor and Director of the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University in Ireland. He has studied Philosophy and History in Utrecht, Strasbourg and Freiburg in Breisgau. In 1995 he was awarded a doctorate in Philosophy from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, followed by a doctorate in Bioethics from the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2003. Bert has been a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University (UK), Georgetown University (USA), the National University of Singapore, the Fondation Brocher (Switzerland), and Yenepoya University (Mangalore, Karnataka, India). He has served on Advisory Panels and Expert Committees of the European Chemical Industry Council, the European Patent Organisation, the Irish Department of Health and UNESCO. Bert is Editor-in-Chief of two book series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology and Advances in Global Bioethics as well as a peer reviewed journal: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, all published by Springer Nature. He is Secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare and President of the International Association of Education in Ethics.
Dr. Francesca Pistoia completed her degree summa cum laude in medicine and surgery, and thereafter specialized in neurology summa cum laude, at the University of L'Aquila. She earned a PhD in Internal Medicine and Applied Immunology at the same University. Currently she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Neurorehabilitation at the University of L'Aquila. So far, she has contributed to 95 papers (83 in peer-reviewed international journals and 12 on italian journals); 80 papers are indexed in Pubmed). She also presented her results at national and international congresses (resulting in 71 abstracts and communications). H-index (Scopus): 21. Her research is mainly focused on the topic of diagnosis, prognosis and rehabilitation of patients with severe brain injury with the aim of implementing validated assessment tools to identify physical, cognitive and behavioural disabilities and quantify rehabilitation-related outcomes. Research topics include: the evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness (vegetative state and minimally conscious state) as a consequence of severe brain injury: her studies in this area have been aimed at evaluating the neurobiological and behavioral factors, which may influence the recovery of consciousness, and the implementation of new therapeutical approaches including brain computer interfaces; the identification of disorders of motor imagery and the perception of emotions in patients with locked-in syndrome. She also contributed to research addressing the epidemiology of cerebrovascular diseases and of Parkinson's disease in population-based registries, and the role of comorbidities in headache pathogenesis and of behavioral therapies in patients with chronic headache. She serves as a member of the Ethical Committee of the University of L’Aquila.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care
Book Subtitle: Training and Implementing Change
Editors: Pierre Mallia, Nathan Emmerich, Bert Gordijn, Francesca Pistoia
Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86386-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86385-2Published: 11 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86388-3Published: 11 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86386-9Published: 10 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2212-652X
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Palliative Medicine