Palliative Care Ethics: Medicine's Duty to Help

Sukru Keles

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Abstract: In palliative care, death, which is a part of human nature, is considered as a normal process. This type of care is concerned with the quality of life rather than its duration. In this context, the basic aim is to perform practices to relieve the patient in a way that does not raise any ethical suspicion. Within this framework, it can be said that palliative care is a requirement of medicine's duty to help. The aim of this chapter is to draw attention to the importance of ethical values in the configuration of palliative care services for patients who are in the last period of their life or the ones who have terminal illnesses. In palliative care, it is essential to arrange care services in a manner that does not raise any ethical doubt about the measures taken to increase beneficence both to the patients who are in the last days of their life and to their relatives. In this study, "The Directive for Implementing Procedures of Palliative Care Services" prepared by the Ministry of Health in Turkey in 2015 will be evaluated in terms of ethics.

Keywords: bioethics; medical ethics; clinical ethics; palliative care ethics; directive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.85160

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