Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| 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. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Annotation
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "Protecting psychiatric patients and others from the assisted-suicide movement : insights and strategies".
Be the first.

