End-of-Life Decision Making across Cultures
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- Vol. 39 (2), 201-214
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2011.00589.x
Abstract
As is evident from the other articles in this special issue, end-of-life treatment has engendered a vigorous dialogue in the United States over the past few decades because decision making at the end of life raises broad and difficult ethical issues that touch on health professionals, patients, and their families. This concern is exacerbated by the high cost related to the end of life in the U.S. Moreover, in light of demographic patterns, progressively scarce health care resources, and an expanding array of life-saving technologies, decisions at the end of life are becoming problematic matters of public and, thus, scholarly concern in most countries. Issues at the end of life are central not only to bioethics but also raise important ancillary policy dimensions.Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Opiniones: End‐of‐Life Care Preferences and Planning of Older LatinosJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2010
- ‘The worst thing about hospice is that they talk about death’: contrasting hospice decisions and experience among immigrant Central and South American Latinos with US-born White, non-Latino cancer caregiversPalliative Medicine, 2010
- End-of-life decision-making and quality of ICU performance: an observational study in 84 Italian unitsIntensive Care Medicine, 2010
- END‐OF‐LIFE CARE IN THE 21st CENTURY: ADVANCE DIRECTIVES IN UNIVERSAL RIGHTS DISCOURSEBioethics, 2010
- ADVANCE DIRECTIVES IN THE NETHERLANDS: AN EMPIRICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE EXPLORATION OF A CROSS‐CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON ADVANCE DIRECTIVESBioethics, 2010
- The practicalities of terminally ill patients signing their own DNR orders--a study in TaiwanJournal of Medical Ethics, 2008
- The impact of regional culture on intensive care end of life decision making: an Israeli perspective from the ETHICUS studyJournal of Medical Ethics, 2006
- Concordance of Preferences for End-of-Life Care Between Terminally Ill Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers in TaiwanJournal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2005
- Solving Family-related Barriers to Truthfulness in Cases of Terminal Cancer in TaiwanCancer Nursing, 2002
- Meanings of Dying at Home for Chinese Patients in Taiwan With Terminal CancerCancer Nursing, 2000