Research Guides @ Fordham: Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Ethics

Six Values in Medical Ethics

The foundation of medical ethics is based upon six principles:

--Autonomy

--Beneficence

--Non-maleficence

--Justice

--Dignity

--Truthfulness and honesty

From Ethics in Palliative Care, 2009, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902121/?report=printable

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Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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BMC Medical Ethics - A Free Online Peer Reviewed Site

According to the site, BMC Medical Ethics is a free online "open access peer-reviewed journal that considers articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice . . .

"All articles published in BMC Medical Ethics are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine."

Books & E-books About Ethics

Death's Dominion: Ethics at the End of Life by Simon Woods
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Open University Press, 2007.
End-of-Life Ethics: A Case Study Approach by Kenneth J. Doka (Ed.); Bruce Jennings (Ed.); Amy S. Tucci (Ed.); Charles A. Corr (Ed.)
Call Number: R726.8.E534 2012 (WC)
Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America, 2012.
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics: The Points of Conflict by Robert M. Veatch
Call Number: R724.V415 2012 (RH)
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012.
Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-Of-Life Patients: A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions by Peter Joel Hurwitz
Call Number: BM635.4.J384 2006 (RH)
Jersey City, NJ: KTAV, 2006.
Partners in Palliative Care: Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life by Mary Beth Morrissey (Ed.); Bruce Jennings (Ed.)
Call Number: R726.8.P37 2013 (RH WC)
New York, NY: Routledge, 2013.
Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp; James F. Childress
Call Number: R724.B36 2019 (WC)
New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2019.
8th edition

More Books

End-of-Life Ethics: A Case Study Approach by Kenneth J. Doka (Ed.); Bruce Jennings (Ed.); Amy S. Tucci (Ed.); Charles A. Corr (Ed.)
Call Number: R726.8.E534 2012 (WC)
Washington, DC: Hospice Foundation of America, 2012.
The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life by Nancy Berlinger; Bruce Jennings; Susan M. Wolf; Hastings Center Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: R726.B47 2013 (WC)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Rev. and expanded 2nd ed.
Rev. ed. of: Guidelines on the termination of life-sustaining treatment and the care of the dying/The Hastings Center, 1987.
Patient-Centred Ethics and Communication at the End of Life by David Jeffrey
Call Number: R726.8.J44 2006 (WC)
Seattle, WA: Radcliffe, 2006.
Understanding Assisted Suicide: Nine Issues to Consider by John B. Mitchell
Call Number: R726.M565 2007 (RH)
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007.
The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics by Vardit Ravitsky
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

Campus Library Designations

RH = Walsh Library at Rose Hill, Bronx

LC = Quinn Library at Lincoln Center

WC = Westchester Campus Library (Fordham Westchester Library)

Web Content

American Academy of Medical Ethics
Click on Issues at the top of the page.
American Medical Association Code of Ethics
Principles of Medical Ethics
End-of-Life Decisions (Ethics)
From BMJ
End-of-Life Issues and Care
From the American Psychological Association
Ethical Issues in Neonatal Care
By Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP, et al. from Medscape, 2013.
Hospice Ethics Institute Explores End-of-Life Issues
Medical Ethics
By William Ruddick, Encyclopedia of Ethics, Lawrence and Charlotte Becker, 2nd ed., Garland, 1998.
Medical Ethics
From the Jewish Virtual Library
Medical Issues at the End of Life
From MedlinePlus, A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Terminal Sedation
From the National Caregivers Library
When Death is Sought
From the New York State Department of Health

Ethical Issues

--Patient competence and autonomy

--Terminal and palliative sedation

--Suffering and pain

--Dignity at the end-of-life

--Euthanasia

--Human dignity

--Withholding the truth at the end-of-life

--Foregoing treatment

--Neonatal pain management

--Feeding and breathing tubes

--Cessation of medical curative treatment

--Infomed consent

--Dementia at the end-of-life

--Caregiver burdens

--Healthcare rationing

--Right to die

--Surrogate decision makers

--Use of morphine in pain managment

--Hydration

Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Ethics