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About the Author
Timothy E. Quill is a Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine where he directs their Palliative Care Division. He is a board member and the immediate past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He was the lead physician plaintiff on a US Supreme Court Case Quill v Vacco testing the legal permissibility of physician assisted death. Quill is a practicing palliative care physician, the previous author/editor of seven books, multiple peer-reviewed articles in major medical journals, and a regular lecturer and commentator on medical decision making, physician patient relationships, palliative care, and end of life issues. Franklin G. Miller. is a member of the senior faculty in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Special Expert, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program. His principal current research interests are examination of ethical issues in clinical research, death and dying, and the placebo effect. Dr. Miller has co-authored Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation (with Robert Truog), Oxford University Press (2012), edited five books and written numerous published articles in medical and bioethics journals on the ethics of clinical research, ethical issues concerning death and dying, professional integrity, health policy, pragmatism and bioethics, and the placebo effect.
Reviews
This is a very good read, not just for professionals working in the field, but for other disciplines, who would like to know more about the origins of palliative care and its relationship to other disciplines. * Christin Bird, The Australian Pain Society *
This is a good synopsis of the range of ethical issues encountered in palliative care, including the delivery of services, patient suffering and physician-assisted dying. * Dr. Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Book Reviews *
...chapters provide valuable insights and management suggestions which would be of use to the palliative care practitioner in any part of the world. * Eleanor Flynn, International Psychogeriatrics *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199316670
Author Timothy E. Quill
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 236mm * 28mm