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Protecting psychiatric patients and others from the assisted-suicide movement : insights and strategies

Author: Barbara A Olevitch
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara A Olevitch
ISBN: 0275969576 9780275969578
OCLC Number: 49421643
Description: xvi, 203 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: pt. I. Do psychiatric patients need protection from physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia? Would physician-assisted suicide lead to more suicides? --
Would physician-assisted suicide lead to euthanasia? --
The beginnings of the fear of medical technology --
The movement to legalize and otherwise promote physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in America --
pt. II. What mental health professionals can do. Soothing fears that progress in medicine will lead to financial disaster --
Establishing a productive frame of reference for psychological problems --
Refusing to do consultations that justify physician-assisted suicide --
Insuring the integrity of informed consent --
Promoting palliative care in medicine and mental health --
Taking a personal position against physician-assisted suicide.
Responsibility: Barbara A. Olevitch ; foreword by Gregory Hamilton ; foreword by Albert Ellis.
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