Name: The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease By Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)
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The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying by Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

Society today, writes Stephen Post, is hypercognitive: it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view-and value-persons deprived of what some consider the most important human capacities? In the second edition of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Post updates his highly praised account of the major ethical issues relating to dementia care. With chapters organized to follow the progression from mild to severe and then terminal stages of dementia, Post discusses topics including the experience of dementia, family caregiving, genetic testing for Alzheimer disease, quality of life, and assisted suicide and euthanasia. New to this edition are sections dealing with end-of-life issues (especially artificial nutrition and hydration), the emerging cognitive-enhancing drugs, distributive justice, spirituality, and hospice, as well as a critique of rationalistic definitions of personhood. The last chapter is a new summary of practical solutions useful to family members and professionals.

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With this second edition of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Post has enlarged upon his original work in a way to make it even more useful and current. The updated version now gives a highly readable strategy for dealing with end-of-life issues, such as artificial tube feeding and dehydration. In his characteristically clear manner, Post equips us with the necessary facts and then cogently suggest how to proceed humanely and with absolute consideration of the person who should be at the center of concern. -- Peter M. Jucovey Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Post has provided a well-researched book with an outstanding bibliography that will be helpful to all caregivers as well as health care providers. The text provides information to guide readers before and during ethical and moral decision making and is very sensitive to the various emotions one endures when the diagnosis is AD. Health Progress In summary, then, Post proposes a new ethic in regard to terminal dementia care. The considerations proposed in this book offer a meaningful guide to both health care professionals and families in dealing with these special issues and advocate a natural death for these patients, freeing families from the sometimes enormous sense of guilt they encounter in making decisions about life extending interventions. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings

About Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

Stephen G. Post is a professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Defining the Task
Chapter 2. The Family Caregiver: Partnership in Hope
Chapter 3. Fairhill Guidelines on Ethics and the Care of People with Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 4. Genetic Education for a Too-Hopeful Public
Chapter 5. The Humane Goal: Enhancing the Well-Being of Persons with Dementia
Chapter 6. Dying with Dignity: The Case Against Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Chapter 7. An Argument Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Context of Progressive Dementia
Chapter 8. Toward a New Ethics of Dementia Care
References
Index

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GOR006041844

ISBN 13

9780801864100

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0801864100

Title

The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying by Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

Author

Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

Series

Gerontology

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Paperback

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Year published

2000-11-10

Number of pages

176

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The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease by Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

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The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying by Stephen G. Post (Director, Center of Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center)

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