La relation médecin-malade a évolué au cours des dernières décennies vers un rôle croissant du patient dans les décisions médicales. Dans le domaine de la fin de vie, deux lois en dix ans sont venues renforcer l'autonomie des malades. L'accroissement des capacités et des pouvoirs de la médecine a conduit à créer des situations inédites. Dans certaines de ces situations, l'ensemble des possibilités médicales sont déployées pour une prolongation artificielle de la vie, sans que le bénéfice pour le patient ne soit clair alors que les nuisances peuvent être insoutenables. On parle alors d'obstination déraisonnable ou d'acharnement thérapeutique. Cette évolution globale de la médecine se retrouve pour les traitements médicaux des cancers. L'évol...
Il s'agit de comprendre comment les notions de dignité et d'autonomie se trouvent sollicitées et mis...
International audienceDeep and continuous sedation until death raises social and ethical issues on t...
SummaryThe issue of life-ending has been a source of considerations since the dawn of civilization, ...
The patient-doctor relationship as evolved during the past decades toward a more important role of p...
International audienceContextIn Western countries, the care of patients at the end of their lives is...
The patient actor in the management of cancer : normative expectations and patient workIn the contex...
Prescriptions for specific active therapies such as chemotherapy increase at the end of life. Howeve...
Oncology is primarily concerned with the question of the end of life: cancer is the cause of one out...
International audienceProgress leads to increase life duration at the metastatic stage but metastati...
End-of-life and the decisions that caregivers may need to make can become an issue due to the ethica...
Patient empowerment emerges in a context of health democracy, encouraged by health policies, and dev...
Il s'agit de comprendre comment les notions de dignité et d'autonomie se trouvent sollicitées et mis...
International audienceDeep and continuous sedation until death raises social and ethical issues on t...
SummaryThe issue of life-ending has been a source of considerations since the dawn of civilization, ...
The patient-doctor relationship as evolved during the past decades toward a more important role of p...
International audienceContextIn Western countries, the care of patients at the end of their lives is...
The patient actor in the management of cancer : normative expectations and patient workIn the contex...
Prescriptions for specific active therapies such as chemotherapy increase at the end of life. Howeve...
Oncology is primarily concerned with the question of the end of life: cancer is the cause of one out...
International audienceProgress leads to increase life duration at the metastatic stage but metastati...
End-of-life and the decisions that caregivers may need to make can become an issue due to the ethica...
Patient empowerment emerges in a context of health democracy, encouraged by health policies, and dev...
Il s'agit de comprendre comment les notions de dignité et d'autonomie se trouvent sollicitées et mis...
International audienceDeep and continuous sedation until death raises social and ethical issues on t...
SummaryThe issue of life-ending has been a source of considerations since the dawn of civilization, ...