This article addresses the unique roles of social work and speech-language pathologists
(SLPs) in end-of-life and hospice care settings. The four levels of hospice care are …

In this chapter, we discuss the ethical features of palliative care for patients with hematologic
malignancies and serious blood disorders. The goal of this chapter is to offer tools for …

En los últimos años ha comenzado a aparecer en la literatura médica y bioética la dicción
inglesa “voluntary stopping of eating and drinking”. Se trata de una práctica que se propone …

Biomedical progress raises ethical questions concerning the prolongation of life at any cost.
This thesis focuses on Orthodox Christian perspectives on hastening patient death in …

The circumstances surrounding death and dying have changed dramatically for Americans
in the past century. In the past, death was a meaningful risk for persons of all ages …