245
Views
12
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

FAMILY BELIEFS ABOUT END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS: AN INTERPERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

Pages 567-594 | Published online: 11 Nov 2010

References

  • Beauchamp , T. L. and Childress , J. F. 1994 . Principles of biomedical ethics , 4th , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Benner , P. 1994 . “ The tradition and skill of interpretive phenomenology in studying health, illness, and caring practices ” . In Interpretive phenomenology: Embodiment, caring, and ethics in health and illness , Edited by: Benner , P. 99 – 127 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage .
  • Borhek , J.T. and Curtis , R. F. 1975 . A sociology of belief , New York : Wiley .
  • Broadwell , A. , Boisaubin , E. , Dunn , J. and Engelhardt , H. 1993 . Advance directives on hospital admission: A survey of patient attitudes . Southern Medical Journal , 86 : 165 – 168 .
  • Brock , D. W. 1995 . “ Death and dying: Euthanasia and sustaining life ethical issues ” . In Encyclopedia of bioethics , Edited by: Reich , TW. 563 – 572 . New York : Simon & Schuster Macmillan .
  • Buber, M (1958). I and thou (2nd ed., R. G. Smith, Ed. and Trans.). New York: Scribner.
  • Buckman , R. 2000 . “ Communication in palliative care: A practical guide ” . In Death, dying & bereavement (2nd ed.) , Edited by: Dickenson , D. , Johnson , M and Katz , J. S. 146 – 173 . London : Sage .
  • Carmel , S. 2001 . The will to live: Gender differences among elderly persons . Social Science & Medicine , 52 : 949 – 958 .
  • Carmel , S. and Mutran , E. J. 1997 . Stability of elderly persons' expressed preferences regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments . Social Science & Medicine , 49 : 949 – 958 .
  • Chesla , C. A. 1995 . Hermeneutic phenomenology: An approach to understanding families . Journal of Family Nursing , 1 : 63 – 78 .
  • Corr , C. A. , Nabe , C. M and Corr , D. M . 1997 . Death and dying, life and living , 2nd , Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole .
  • DaIy , K. 1992 . “ The fit between qualitative research and characteristics of families ” . In Qualitative methods in family research , Edited by: Gilgun , J. F. , DaIy , K. and Handle , G. 3 – 11 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage .
  • Erlandson , D. A. , Harris , E. L. , Skipper , B. L. and Alien , S. D. 1993 . Doing naturalistic inquiry: A guide to methods , Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage .
  • Etzioni , A. 1988 . Normative-affective factors: Towards a new decision making model . Journal of Economic Psychology , 9 : 125 – 150 .
  • Fagerlin , A. , Ditto , P. H. , Danks , J. H. and Houts , R. M . 2001 . Projection in surrogate decisions about life sustaining medical treatments . Health Psychology , 20 : 166 – 175 .
  • Freedman , R . 1996 . Respectful service and reverent obedience: A Jewish view of making decisions for incompetent parents . Hastings Center Report , 26 ( 4 ) : 31 – 37 .
  • Gergen , K. 1985 . The social constructivst movement in the modern psychology . American Psychologist , 40 : 266 – 275 .
  • Click , S. M . 1997 . Unlimited human autonomy: A cultural bias? . The Mew England Journal of Medicine , 336 : 954 – 956 .
  • Gross , M. L. 1999 . Autonomy and paternalism in communitarian society: Patient rights in Israel . Hastings Center Report , 29 ( 4 ) : 13 – 20 .
  • Hardwig , J. 1997 . Is there a duty to die? . Hastings Center Report , 27 ( 2 ) : 34 – 42 .
  • Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). New York: Seabury Press.
  • Hessing , D. L. , Blad , J. R. and Pieterman , R. 1996 . Practical reasons and reasonable practice: The case of euthanasia in The Netherlands . Journal of Social Issues , 52 ( 2 ) : 149 – 168 .
  • High , DL M and Rowles , G. D. 1995 . Nursing home residents, families, and decision making: Toward an understanding of progressive surrogacy . Journal of Aging Studies , 9 ( 2 ) : 101 – 117 .
  • Holstein , J. A. and Gubrium , J. F. 1995 . The active interview , Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage .
  • Jamison , S. 1997 . Assisted suicide A decision-making guide for health professionals , San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass .
  • Keiner , M. 1995 . Activists and delegators: Elderly patients' perspectives about control at end of life . Social Science & Medicine , 41 : 537 – 545 .
  • Koenig , H. G. 1993 . Legalizing physician-assisted suicide: Some thoughts and concerns . Journal of Family Practice , 37 : 171 – 179 .
  • Lee , Y. T , Kleinbach , R. , Hu , P. C , Peng , Z. Z. and Chen , X. Y. 1996 . Cross cultural research on euthanasia and abortion . Journal of Social Issues , 52 : 131 – 148 .
  • Leichtentritt , R. D. and Rettig , K. D. 1999a . Attitudes toward euthanasia and justifying reasons of elderly Israelis and their family members . The Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss , 4 : 317 – 344 .
  • Leichtentritt , R. D. and Rettig , K. D. 1999b . Meanings and attitudes toward end-of-life preferences in Israel . Death Studies , 23 : 323 – 358 .
  • Leichtentritt , R. D. and Rettig , K. D. 1999c . My parent's dignified death is different from mine: Moral problem-solving about euthanasia . The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships , 16 : 385 – 406 .
  • Leichtentritt , R. D. , Rettig , K. D. and Miles , S. H. 1999 . The euthanasia debate: Holocaust survivors perspective on the slippery slope arguments . Social Science & Medicine , 48 ( 1 ) : 185 – 196 .
  • Libbus , K. M and Russell , C. 1995 . Congruence of decisions between patients and their potential surrogates about life-sustaining therapies . Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship , 2 ( 2 ) : 135 – 140 .
  • Marshall , R.Thomasma , Bergsma , D. C and J. 1994 . Intercultural reasoning: The challenge for international bioethics . Cambridge Quarterly Healthcare Ethics , 3 : 321 – 328 .
  • Matheis-Kraft , C and Roberta , K. 1997 . Influences of a value discussion on congruence between elderly women and their families on critical health care decisions . Journal of Women and Aging , 9 : 5 – 22 .
  • Northouse , P. G. and Northouse , L. L. 1987 . Communication and cancer: Issues confronting patients, health professionals and family members . Journal of Psychosocial Oncology , 5 : 17 – 45 .
  • Patton , M Q. 1990 . Qualitative evaluation and research methods , Newbury Park, CA : Sage .
  • Reiss , D. 1981 . The family's construction of reality , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Roberta , K. A. 1999 . Making critical health care decisions for older adults' consensus among family members . Family Relations , 48 : 167 – 175 .
  • Rothchild , E. 1994 . Family dynamics in end-of-life treatment decisions . General Hospital Psychiatry , 16 : 251 – 258 .
  • Scholz, R. W., & Zimmer, A. C. (Eds.) (1997). (Qualitative aspects of decision making. Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science.
  • Schwandt , T. A. 1994 . “ Constructivist, interpretivist approaches to human inquiry ” . In Handbook of qualitative research , Edited by: Denzin , N. K. and Lincoln , Y. S. 118 – 137 . Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage .
  • Seckler , A. R , Meier , D. E. , Mulvihill , M and Paris , R E. 1991 . Substituted judgment: How accurate are proxy predictions? . Annals of Internal Medicine , 115 ( 2 ) : 92 – 98 .
  • Siegel-Itzkowich , J. 1996 . Israel issues guidelines on prolonging life . British Medical Journal , 312 : 727
  • Shawler , C , High , D. , Moore , K. and Velotta , C. 1992 . Surrogate decision making for hospitalized elders . Journal of Gerontological Nursing , 18 ( 6 ) : 5 – 11 .
  • Shuval , J. T. 1992 . Social dimensions of health: The Israeli experience , Westport, CT : Prager .
  • Spiegelberg , H. 1960 . The phenomena logical movement An historical introduction , Hague, The Netherlands : Martinus Nijhoif .
  • Suhl , J. , Simons , P. , Reddy , T and Garrick , T. 1994 . Myth of substituted judgment: Surrogate decision making regarding life support is unreliable . Journal of Internal Medicine , 154 : 90 – 96 .
  • Uhlmann , R. , Pearlman , R. and Chain , K. 1988 . Physicians' and spouses' predictors of elderly patients' resuscitation preferences . Journal of Gerontology , 43 : 115 – 121 .
  • Van Mannen , M . 1990 . Researching lived experiences: Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy , New York : State University of New York Press .
  • Wright , L. M , Watson , W. L. and BeIl , J. M . 1996 . Beliefs: The heart of healing in families and illness , New York : Basic Books .
  • Zweibel , N. and Cassel , C. 1989 . Treatment choices at the end of life: A comparison decisions by older patients and their physician selected proxies . The Geronologist , 29 : 615 – 621 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.