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• Title:Decision making near the end of life : issues, developments, and future directions / edited by James L. Werth, Jr. and Dean Blevins.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Werth, James L.
  Blevins, Dean.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Routledge, ©2009.
  

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  • Call Number: WB310 .D294 2009
    
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  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WB310 .D294 2009
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Terminal care--Decision making.
  
• Medical Subjects: Terminal Care--ethics--United States.
  Decision Making--United States.
  Terminally Ill--United States.
  
• Description:xxv, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Series in death, dying, and bereavement.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0415954487 (cloth)
  9780415954488 (cloth)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Introduction / Dean Blevins and James L. Werth, Jr.
  Ch. 2. Adolescent end-of-life decision making : family-centered advance care planning / Richard Lyon and Maureen E. Lyon
  Ch. 3. grip of pain / Jonathon D. Spannhake
  Ch. 4. Decision making in the absence of advance directives : a personal story of letting go / Laura Crow
  Ch. 5. hastened death / Nicola G. Raye
  Ch. 6. How people die in the United States / Marilyn J. Field
  Ch. 7. media and end-of-life choices and decisions / Marilyn Webb
  Ch. 8. Three female faces : the law of end-of-life decision making in America / Kathy L. Cerminara
  Ch. 9. End-of-life choices / Phillip M. Kleespies, Pamela J. Miller and Thomas A. Preston
  Ch. 10. Decision making in palliative care / Victor T. Chang and Nethra Sambamoorthi
  Ch. 11. Communication related to end-of-life care and decisions / Ellen L. Csikai
  Ch. 12. Dying in institutions / Suzanne S. Prevost and J. Brandon Wallace
  Ch. 13. What would Terri want? : advance directives and the psychological challenges of surrogate decision making / Peter H. Ditto
  Ch. 14. possible impact of mental health issues on end-of-life decision making / James L. Worth, Jr.
  Ch. 15. Family end-of-life decision making / Sharla Wells-Di Gregorio
  Ch. 16. Religious and spiritual perspectives on life-threatening illness, dying, and death / Kenneth J. Doka
  Ch. 17. Culture, individual diversity, and end-of-life decisions / Bert Hayslip, Jr., Robert O. Hansson, Jon D. Starkweather and Diana C. Dolan
  Ch. 18. Decisions by and for adults with questionable mental capacity : focus on dementia / Ladislav Volicer
  Ch. 19. Pediatric patient-oriented problem solving near the end of life / Chris Feudtner and Anne E. Kazak.