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Section I: Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Introduction (Timothy E. Quill and Franklin G. Miller) Chapter 2: Hospice (Charles von Gunten) Chapter 3: Palliative Care (Susan D. Block) Section II. Ethical Challenges within Current Systems of Care Chapter 4: Emerging Complexities in Pediatric Palliative Care (Renee Boss and Nancy Hutton) Chapter 5: Patient-Centered Ethos in an Era of Cost Control: Palliative Care and Healthcare Reform (Diane E. Meier and Emily Warner) Chapter 6: Palliative Care, Ethics and Interprofessional Teams (Sally A. Norton, Deborah Waldrop, and Robert Gramling) Section III. Addressing Dimensions of Suffering Chapter 7: Pain Relief and Palliative Care (Nathan Cherny) Chapter 8: Management of Dyspnea (Thomas W. LeBlanc, David C. Currow, Jane L. Phillips, and Amy Abernethy) Chapter 9: Diagnosis and Treatment of Delirium (Maxine De la Cruz and Eduardo Bruera) Chapter 10: Psychosocial and Psychiatric Suffering (Yesne Alici, Kanan Modhwadia, William S. Breitbart) Chapter 11: Capacity and Shared Decision-Making in Serious Illness (Ronald M. Epstein and Vikki Entwistle) Section IV. Difficult Decisions Near the Very End of Life Chapter 12: Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatments (Robert D. Truog) Chapter 13: Medical Futility: Content in the Context of Care (Peggy Determeyer and Howard Brody ) Chapter 14: Palliative Sedation (J. Andrew Billings) Chapter 15: Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (Emily Rubin and James L. Bernat) Chapter 16: Physician Assisted Death (Timothy E. Quill and Franklin Miller) Chapter 17 17a: Lessons from Legalized Physician Assisted Death in Oregon and Washington: (Linda Ganzini) 17b: Physician Assisted Death in Western Europe: The Legal and Empirical Situation (Heleen Weyers)

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