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A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life’s End

J. Hallenbeck

2006.5.1ONCOLOGIST

DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.11-5-527

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This review concludes with a call for further studies into the use of palliative care as a “last resort” treatment for cancer patients with a history of organ failure.

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Correspondence: James Hallenbeck, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. Telephone: 650-366-4052; Fax: 650-849-0260; e-mail: james.hallenbeck@med.va.gov ©AlphaMed Press 1083-7159/2006/$20.00/0 A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life’s End By Joseph Fins, 281 pp., Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 0763732923.

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HALLENBECK, J. A palliative ethic of care: Clinical wisdom at life’s end. ONCOLOGIST, 2006, 11: 527–528.