Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care

Chapter 1. Introduction (Nathan Emmerich).- Section 1. Philosophical and theological Perspectives on Care at the End of Life.- Chapter 2: Human Rights and Patient Rights (Anne-Marie Duguet).- Chapter 3. Utilitarianism (Michael Quante).- Chapter 4. Virtue Ethics.- Chapter 5. A Feminist Ethics of Care at the End of Life (Carlo Leget).- Chapter 6. Islam and Care at the End of Life (Alireza Bagheri).- Chapter 7. Judaism and Care at the End of Life (Michael Barilan).- Chapter 8. Catholicism and Care at the End of Life (Pierre Mallia).- Chapter 9. Protestantism and Care at the End of Life (Andrea Dörries).- Section 2. Ethical Concepts in End of Life Care: Definitions and Distinctions.- Chapter 10. Dignity (Roberto Andorno).- Chapter 11. Intentions and the Doctrine of Double Effect (Simon Woods).- Chapter 12. Futility (Lindy Wilmott).- Chapter 13: Proportionality and the Difference Between Ordinary and Extra-ordinary Care (Alan Kearns).- Chapter 14. Difference Between Withdrawing and Withholding Lifesaving and Life Prolonging Treatment (Andrew McGee).- Chapter 15. Killing and Letting Die, and / or Acts and Omissions (Richard Huxtable).- Section 3. Moral Concerns and Ethical Problems in the Clinical Practice of End of Life Care.- Chapter 16. The Ethics of Sedation at the End of Life (Soren Holm.).- Chapter 17. Advanced Directives: A Pan-European Perspective (Ruth Horn).- Chapter 18. Disorders of Consciousness and End of Life Care (Francesca Pistola).- Chapter 19. Patient Refusal of Life Saving Treatment (Christoph Rehmann-Sutter).- Chapter 20. Intentions of Physicians and End of Life Care Team (Vinnie Nambisan).- Chapter 21. Moral Distress in End of Life Care (Georgina Morely).- Chapter 22. Social Factors in Care at the End of Life: Gender and the Family (Marian Verkerk ).- Chapter 23. Ethics and Intercultural Issues in End of Life Care (Ayesha Ahmad).- Chapter 24. The Role of Guidelines and Pathways in End of Life Care (Micheal Bone).- Chapter 25. Conclusion. 

Nathan Emmerich is a Research Fellow in Bioethics in the Australian National University's Medical School. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethics and End of Life Care at the Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast. He has a background in Philosophy and took his PhD, which concerned the connection between the informal moral socialisation of medical students and their formal medical ethics education, under the supervision of medical sociologist. His work is interdisciplinary in nature and he has published on ethical expertise, social science research ethics and in bioethics more generally. He tweets at @BioethicsAUS. 

Pierre Mallia is Professor of Family Medicine and Biomedical Ethics at the University of Malta. He is attached to Malta's Geriatric Karen GrechHospital as a Clinical Ethicist and has published numerous papers and publications in Ethics, including on ethical issues with regard to aging. He is Chairman of the Dept. of Health's Health Ethics Committee, and the Minister of Health's Bioethics Consultative Committee. He is also the Ethics Advisor to the Medical Council of Malta and coordinates the University of Malta's Bioethics Research Programme at the Medical School and was former Hon. Secretary to the National Bioethics Consultative Committee and founded and coordinates the Medical Law Unit in the Faculty of Laws. He is the President of the Malta College of Family Doctors and was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK) for successfully introducing post graduate training and the MRCGP (INT) qualification in Malta. The Royal College of Physicians of London has also awarded him an honorary membership for advancing medicine in Malta.