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Decision-making and Advance Directives (403 KB)

A guide to various concepts and methodologies of bioethics. Bioethics in Medicine; Clinical Ethics

American Psychological Association

• Ethical Aspects of Providing Psychological Palliative Care
  American Psychological Association webpage specifically pertaining to ethics in death and dying. It also includes links to numerous other psychological end-of-life concerns.

• HRW: Human Rights Watch
  One of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.
  • Unbearable Pain: India’s Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care (Report, October 28, 2009)
    This 102-page report found that many major cancer hospitals in India do not provide patients with morphine, despite the fact that more than 70 percent of their patients are incurable and likely to require pain treatment and palliative care.

IAHPC: International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care

• Ethical Issues in Palliative Care
• Principles of Medical Ethics

IOELC: International Observatory on End of Life Care

• Ethics in Palliative Care

StopPain.org

• Ethics and Law

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