Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care : Training and Implementing Change

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care andasks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject. Though ethics consultation is a growing practice in medical contexts, difficult questions surrounding the role of ethicists in professional decision-making remain. The chapters in this book examine the nature and plausibility of moral expertise, the relationship between character and expertise, the nature and limits of moral authority, the question of how one might become a moral expert, and the trustworthiness of moral testimony. This volume not only engages with the growing literature in the debate on end-of-life care but also offers new perspectives from both academics and practitioners. Such perspectives include ways on how to get together to optimize end-of-life care. This book is of particular interest to bioethicists, clinicians, ethics committees, students of social epistemology, patient groups, and institutions, especially religious, who may not be sufficiently imparting the social teachings of end-of-life care. It also shows how they are indeed stakeholders for what is today called 'a good death'. These new essays advance discussions and provide practical information on dying as well as acting as a guide to those interested in actively effecting change. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783030863883

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Pierre Mallia is Professor of Family Medicine and Patients’ Rights in the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery at the Medical School, Mater Dei Hospital, where he also coordinates the Bioethics Research Programme. He is Consultant in Clinical Ethics at Malta’s main hospital ‘Materi Dei’. He is Chairperson and founder of the Medicine & Law Programme of the Faculty of Laws within the same university and a Visiting Professor at the Laennec University of Lyon, France. He is Chairman of the Health Ethics Committee of the Department of Health and recently has been made Chairperson of the National Bioethics Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Health, where he has been advisor to the several consecutive Ministers. He has recently been also appointed Chairman of the Faculty Research Ethics Committee (FREC) of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery at the University of Malta. At the moment he is the Principal Investigator and holder of the Erasmus + EndCare project, which is studyingissues and problems of applying pathways at the end of life. He represents the University of Malta as the Principal partner, along with two other partner countries (Italy and Ireland) and experts from the UK, Ireland, France, Iran, Toronto, USA, and the Pontifical Academy for Life of the Vatican. He is planning a second project which will involve Patient Groups and Palliative Care organisations. He has published over eighty articles in international peer reviewed journals and also several books including on by Sringer-Nature, on The Nature of the Doctor Patient Relationship. He has contributed Chapters to Springer’s Encylopedia of Global Ethics (3 Vols), and to, Springer’s Handbook for global ethics (4 Vols), Edited by Professors Henk Ten Have and Bert Gordijn.