{"product_id":"hospice-ethics-timothy-w-kirk-9780199943838","title":"Hospice Ethics: Policy and Practice in Palliative Care","description":"Hospice care is one of the fastest-growing segments of the U. S. healthcare system, a trend that is expected to accelerate as the median age of the population continues to rise over the next three decades. Despite over forty percent of the population now dying while on hospice care, very\u003cbr\u003elittle has been published on the ethical opportunities and challenges experienced in the everyday lives of those giving and receiving hospice care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive collection devoted to analyzing distinctive ethical issues arising in the delivery of hospice care and designed to promote best ethical practices for hospice care professionals and organizations. Thirteen newly commissioned chapters by seventeen hospice experts\u003cbr\u003epopulate three thematic sections of the book, each devoted to an aspect of the intersection between ethics and hospice care. Contributors have unique qualifications and abilities to articulate and respond to ethically significant phenomena that -- while not always unique to hospice care -- arise in\u003cbr\u003eespecially poignant and complex ways when caring for patients enrolled in hospice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the shift or return to home-based care at the end of life continues, hospice professionals and programs will be faced with a broader array of terminal illnesses, cultural beliefs and traditions, and patient and family values than ever before. Hospice will no longer be tailored solely to the final\u003cbr\u003estage of cancer, but will need to accommodate patients whose illnesses are variable in their progression and whose treatment plans include many medical options. The ethical orientations and frameworks that have served hospice for the past 50 years will need to be supplemented and refined if hospice\u003cbr\u003eis to fulfill this changing social mission. \u003cem\u003eHospice Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e explores a new paradigm for hospice ethics from a multi-disciplinary and provides an important educational resource for professional training in end of life care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy W. Kirk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199943834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199943838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Timothy W. Kirk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913408184575,"sku":"9780199943838","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_28ee6b4b-449e-4cc4-bf78-2825bd63bf2b.jpg?v=1680620265","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hospice-ethics-timothy-w-kirk-9780199943838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}