Speaking for the dying : life-and-death decisions in intensive care /: life-and-death decisions in intensive care. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan P. Shapiro.
• Authors: Shapiro, Susan P
• Contents: Holding life and death in their hands -- Is this for me? -- The intensive care unit. Personnel ; Rhythms ; Economics -- Actors. Patients ; Friends, family, and significant others ; Health care professionals -- Decisions. Informed consent ; Venues ; Affect ; Conflict -- Prognosis. Evidence ; Timing ; Mixed messages ; Negotiation ; Accuracy ; Prognostic framing -- Decision-making scripts. The legal script ; Cognitive scripts ; Conflicts of interest ; Law at the bedside -- Improvisation: decisions in the real world. The patient should decide ; Reprising patient instructions ; Standing in the patient's shoes ; Beneficence ; It's God's decision ; What we want ; Denial, opting out -- Making a difference? The role of physicians ; Opting for a trajectory ; Outcomes ; I thought the law would take care of this ; Does any of this matter? -- The end. Implications ; Before it's too late ; When it's too late ; When "this" happens to me.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.02/9; Terminal care -- Decision making; Terminal care -- Decision making -- Case studies; Advance directives (Medical care); Advance directives (Medical care) -- Psychological aspects; Terminally ill -- Civil rights; Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics; Intensive care units; Advance directives (Medical care); Intensive care units; Medical ethics; Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects; Terminal care -- Decision making; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL / Diseases; MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL / Internal Medicine; Case studies; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226615882
• Related ISBNs: 022661588X; 9780226615608; 022661560X; 9780226615745; 022661574X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.