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A Gentle Death
Seguin, Marilynne
Publisher: Key Porter Books, Toronto, CanadaYear Published: 1994 Pages: 249pp Price: $19.95 ISBN: 1-55013-553-8 Library of Congress Number: R726.8.S44 1994 Dewey: 362.1'75 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX9276 Explores the moral and legal implications of euthanasia. Offers advice on working with doctors and other health-care professionals, dealing with unresolved personal conflicts, involving family members and friends in the decision-making process, and coping with legal realities. Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Outline of Cases CHAPTER ONE : THE JOURNEY BEGINS Autonomy 12 CHAPTER TWO: PATIENTS AND DOCTORS: FINDING A BALANCE OF POWER Finding the Right Partner in Your Health Care What Makes a "Good Doctor"? Good Communication Is the Cornerstone of Good Care Some Causes of Communication Breakdown The Diagnosis The Specialist Second Opinions The Incompatible Philosophy CHAPTER THREE: SUFFERING: WHAT IS IT AND WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT? Institutional Settings If you're Going to Be Sick, Make Sure the Disease Is Interesting Home Settings Choices Does "Let Me Die" Always Mean " Let Me Die"? CHAPTER FOUR: HOW TO PUT DIGNITY IN DYING Making It Right with Family and Friends Tying Up Loose ends Sharing the Second-Greatest Event in Your Life It Is a Matter of Choice CHAPTER FIVE: PLANNING AHEAD Advance Health Care Directives Background to the Development of Living Wills A Living Will Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Your Rights Under the Law The Family and Advance Health care Directives The Physician and Advance Health Care Directives CHAPTER SIX: IS THERE A CHOICE? Background to the Development of Palliative care Some Problems-Real and Perceived- With Palliative Care Institutionalized Palliative Care Pain Control Other Alternatives Serious Quality-of Life Decisions to Be Made Suicide and Physician-Assisted Death Anti-Choice Factions CHAPTER SEVEN: SOCIAL VALUES A Brief Historical Perspective on Medicine and Society Institutionalized Medicine The Age of the Specialist The Birth of the Biomedical Ethicist Birth and Death as Illness Attitudes of Formal religion Toward Death Changes In Family Structure The Economics of Health Care "Let Those Infected with AIDS Have Euthanasia!" Others Express Their Opinion Canadians Have Voted! CHAPTER EIGHT: HOW DOES THE LAW STAND IN CANADA? Recent Court Decisions Parliament and the Right-to-Choose-to-Die Debate CHAPTER NINE: WHEN IS THE END THE END? Age Is Only One Part of the Dying Equation Enough Is Enough CHAPTER TEN: HOW TO SURVIVE AS A CAREGIVER "I Just Need Time to Cry!" "But There Is No One I Can Talk To." Who Cares for the Caregivers at Home? Respite Care CHAPTER ELEVEN: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Publicity Versus Privacy The Hidden World of Negotiation Physician-Assisted Death Appendix A : Glossary Appendix B : Selected Reading Appendix C : A Living will Appendix D : Canadian Support Groups Appendix E : Sources for Information About Federal and Provincial Legislation on Advance Health Care Directives Appendix F : Members of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies Subject Headings |