Abstract
The issues surrounding death and dying are many, ranging from those that arise in relation to organ transplantation, such as how death is to be defined and when is it thought to occur, to those concerning how the dying person is to be treated. The focus of this chapter will be on the problems raised in the latter category, as these represent the concerns of many nurses in their day-to-day work.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Aristotle (1980) The Nicomachean Ethics, D. Ross (transl.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Bayles, M. D. (1980) ‘The Value of Life — By What Standard?’, American Journal of Nursing, Dec., pp. 2226–30.
Bayles, M. D. (1983) ‘Quality of Life and Euthanasia’, in M. D. Bayles and D. High (eds), Medical Treatment of the Dying, (Cambridge, Mass: Shenkman Publishing Co.).
Beauchamp, J. M. (1975) ‘Euthanasia and the Nurse Practitioner’, Nursing Forum, vol. XIV, no. 1, pp. 56–73.
Beauchamp, T. L. and Childress, J. F. (1983) Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press).
California Courts of Appeal Report, 24 April, (1986).
Caroline, N. L. (1972) ‘Dying in Academe’, The New Physician, Nov., pp. 655–7.
de Ridder, C. (1988) ‘A Model For Euthanasia’, Nursing Standard, vol. 3, no. 48, pp. 35–7.
EXIT (1980) The Last Right: The Need for Voluntary Euthanasia (London: EXIT).
Foot, P. (1977) ‘Euthanasia’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 6, pp. 111–12.
Glover, J. (1977) Causing Death and Saving Lives (Middlesex: Penguin).
Guardian, 8 January 1985.
Harris, J. (1985) The Value of Life (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).
Ladd, J. (1979) Ethical Issues Relating to Life and Death (New York: Oxford University Press).
Lamb, D. (1985) Death, Brain death and Ethics (Kent: Croom Helm).
Lamb, D. (1988) Down The Slippery Slope: Arguing in Applied Ethics (Kent: Croom Helm).
McCormick, R. A. (1974) ‘To Save or Let Die’, Journal of American Medical Association, vol. 229, pp. 172–6.
Melia, K. M. (1987) ‘Cruel to be Kind’, Nursing Times, 8 April, pp. 43–5.
Melia, K. M. (1989) Everyday Nursing Ethics (Basingstoke: Macmillan).
Nagel, T. (1986) ‘Death’, in P. Singer (ed.), Applied Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press).
Rachels, J. (1986) The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Ramsey, P. (1970) The Patient as Person (New Haven; Yale University Press).
Riga, P.J. (1989) ‘The Health Care Professional and the Care of the Dying: The Crisis of AIDS’, Linacre Quarterly, February, pp. 53–62.
Schaeffer, E. (1978) Affliction (New Jersey: Fleming H Revell Company).
Schucking, E. L. (1985) ‘Death in a New York Hospital’, Law, Medicine and Health Care, December, pp. 261–8.
United Kingdom Central Council for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (1984) Code of Professional Conduct, 2nd ed. (London: UKCC).
United Kingdom Central Council for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors (1989), Exercising Accountability (London: UKCC).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1992 Ruth Chadwick & Win Tadd
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Chadwick, R., Tadd, W. (1992). Nursing the dying person. In: Ethics and Nursing Practice. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11388-0_12
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11388-0_12
Publisher Name: Palgrave, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-52045-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-11388-0
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy CollectionPhilosophy and Religion (R0)