Proportionality, terminal suffering and the restorative goals of medicine

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 23, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 321-337

  Jansen, Lynn A ^a   Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dignity; End of life; Proportionality; Restoration; Suffering

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; OPIATE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DYING; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHANTOM PAIN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; WELLBEING;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GOALS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RIGHT TO DIE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 0036918055     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021209706566     Document Type: Review

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