Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making
Table of Contents:
PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

1.   An Introduction to Culture and Its Influence on End-of-Life Decision Making

PART I:  THE MEDICAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL CONTEXT OF DEATH AND DYING

2.    Physical Aspects of Dying

3.    Cognitive Changes That Affect Capacity and End-of-Life Decisions

4.     Autonomy, Advance Directives, and the Patient Self-Determination Act

5.     Ethnical Considerations and Court Involvement in End-of-Life Decision
        Making

PART 2:  ETHNICAL PERSPECTIVES ON END-OF-LIFE DECISION MAKING

6.    Cultural and Religious Issues for African Americans

7.    Advance Directives and End-of-Life Care: The Hispanic Perspective

8.    Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making Among Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States

9.    End-of-Life Decision Making in American Indian and Alaska Native Cultures

PART 3: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON END-OF-LIFE DECISION MAKING

10. Christian Perspectives on End-of-Life Decision Making: Faith in a Community

11. Catholic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide:  The Human Person and the Quest for Meaning

12. Jewish Perspectives on End-of-Life Decision Making

13. Muslim Perspectives Regarding Death, Dying, and End-of-Life Decision          Making

14. Buddhist Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making

PART 4: END-OF-LIFE ISSUES IN INSTITUTIONAL CULTURES AND FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS

15. Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making in the Hospital and Nursing Home Culture

16. End-of-Life Issues in the Military Culture

17. End-of-Life Issues in the HIV/AIDS Community

18. End-of-Life Issues: A Disabilities Perspective

IMPLICATIONS

19. Talking to Patients About Death and Dying:  Improving Communication Across Cultures


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