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Detained and dying
— ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care in prison |
| Author(s) | Meredith Stensland, Sara Sanders |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, vol 12, no 3, July-September 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, July-September 2016 |
| Pages | pp 259-276 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Offenders ; Prisoners ; Ageing process ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Social ethics. |
| Annotation | Prisons are increasingly being called upon to provide end-of-life (EOL) care within the restrictive correctional environment. Several relatively recent phenomena have brought medical ethics to the forefront of prison EOL care _ including ageing behind bars, a paradigm shift in prison culture, the increasing rate of in-prison deaths, and the corresponding prison hospice movement. This article examines prominent ethical issues that emerge for prison staff who are tasked with providing care to terminally ill offenders by presenting three offender composite characters that exemplify dying offenders and emergent ethical issues surrounding their care. Identification and critical analysis of these ethical issues demonstrate the need for strong commitment to ethical practice and highlights specific issues for prisons to examine in their own EOL care practice. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-161125211 A |
| Classmark | TGC TGF: BG: CX: LV: TQ |
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