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Palliative Care Confronted with Euthanasia and Consequent Meaning of Social Work
PROTIVÍNSKÁ, Lucie
The study deals with fundamental issue of palliative care which is defined as active and complete care of the patient with sickness unresponsive to curative care, it shows the possibilities of palliative care and its ways to achieve the most possible quality of patient´s and his family´s life. The ideal is to relieve symptoms such as physical pain, psychical, social and the spiritual one also. The study focuses mainly on the mission and the tasks of medical profession as well as on the social work during the care of uncurable patient and of his family. There are some reflexions about dying and death in the first chapter, and in that context it´s not possible to avoid the problematic of euthanasia which has as many fervent proponents as opponents. The fourth chapter deals with this ethic dilemma. The meaning of social work in palliative care emerged from the confrontation of the euthanasia with the palliative care is treated in the fifth chapter.

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