| Contents |
Hospice / Charles von Gunten -- Palliative care / Susan D. Block -- Emerging complexities in pediatric palliative care / Renee Boss and Nancy Hutton -- Patient-centered ethos in an era of cost control : palliative care and healthcare reform / Diane E. Meier and Emily Warner -- Palliative care, ethics, and interprofessional teams / Sally A. Norton, Deborah Waldrop, and Robert Gramling -- Pain relief and palliative care / Nathan Cherny -- Management of dyspnea / Thomas W. LeBlanc, David C. Currow, Jane L. Phillips, and Amy Abernethy -- Diagnosis and treatment of delirium / Maxine De la Cruz and Eduardo Bruera -- Psychosocial and psychiatric suffering / Yesne Alici, Kanan Modhwadia, William S. Breitbart -- Capacity and shared decision-making in serious illness / Ronald M. Epstein and Vikki Entwistle -- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments / Robert D. Truog -- Medical futility : content in the context of care / Peggy Determeyer and Howard Brody -- Palliative sedation / J. Andrew Billings -- Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking / Emily Rubin and James L. Bernat -- Physician assisted death / Timothy E. Quill and Franklin Miller -- Lessons from legalized physician assisted death in Oregon and Washington / Linda Ganzini -- Physician assisted death in Western Europe : the legal and empirical situation / Heleen Weyers. |
