Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach
The book’s main contribution is its interdisciplinary approach to the issue of sedation at the end-of-life. Because it occurs at the end of life, palliative sedation raises a number of important ethical and legal questions, including whether it is a cover
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Paulina Taboada Editor
Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 116 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker
Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina
CATHOLIC STUDIES IN BIOETHICS Series Founding Co-Editors John Collins Harvey, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Francesc Abel, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Center Borja, Barcelona, Spain Series Editor Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Editorial Advisory Board Joseph Boyle, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, U.S.A. Thomas Cavanaugh, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. Mark Cherry, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, U.S.A. Ana Smith Iltis, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, U.S.A. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6414
Paulina Taboada Editor
Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Editor Paulina Taboada Center for Bioethics and Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile
ISSN 0376-7418 ISSN 2215-0080 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-017-9105-2 ISBN 978-94-017-9106-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9106-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014946068 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use
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