| 書目名稱 | Palliative Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients |
| 副標題 | Can Hope Be a Right? |
| 編輯 | Cynthia Pereira de Araújo |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/741/740634/740634.mp4 |
| 概述 | Discusses the limits of palliative treatment for advanced cancer patients and its legal and ethical implications.Argues that futile medical care is based on a supposed right to hope, which cannot be s |
| 圖書封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed “Right to Hope” in the context of the treatment of patients with advanced cancer. The central idea of the work is the question of whether and to what extent patients with advanced cancer have the right to legally demand a palliative treatment whose efficacy has not been proven from the point of view of the desired objectives. The book demonstrates how hope cannot be subject to legal protection and, also, that, even if theoretical-legal reasons were not sufficient for the absence of an abstract right to hope, ethical reasons would be. The work concludes that the best palliative care, rather than palliative treatment, guarantees the best right to health for advanced cancer patients, especially in terminal cases..In addition to this theoretical discussion, the book also presents the results of a qualitative research the author conducted with 48 advancedcancer patients in Brazil and Germany to investigate their expectations towards chemotherapy. This study has confirmed that many patients decide to undergo often toxic and exhausting treatments, unrealistical |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | End-of-Life Decision Making; Cancer; Palliative Care; Advanced Cancer Patients; Palliative Treatment; Rig |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30776-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-30778-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-30776-8 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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