End-of-Life Care: Ethics and Law is written by Joan McCarthy & Mary Donnelly (University College Cork), Dolores Dooley & David Smith (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and Louise Campbell (ClinicalEthics Ireland) (Cork University Press, ISBN 978 185918 481 3, sbk, 468pp, 294 x 197mm, €25/£20).

Dr Joan McCarthy of the School of Nursing & Midwifery at UCC,stated: “In recent years in this country there has been an increasing interest in what are generally described as end of life issues.   While many surveys have shown that the majority of people would prefer to die in their own homes, the fact is that most of us die in hospital or some form of long-stay facility.   At times the circumstances surrounding the terminally ill at the time of their death are far from ideal.   While this is, of course, not intentional, it is understandable that in the context of a busy and overcrowded hospital ward a dying person may be denied privacy and dignity.

The book emerged out of a groundbreaking national project undertaken by UCC, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Irish Hospice Foundation (through the Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme) over three years.  It draws on a significant body of research specifically addressing ethical issues in relation to end-of-life care in Irish hospitals. The research had input from ethicists, sociologists, legal experts, theologians and clinicians.It is also informed by reviews and studies involving hospice, palliative and acute care services.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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