
Protecting Psychiatric Patients from the Assisted-Suicide Movement : Insights and Strategies.
Title:
Protecting Psychiatric Patients from the Assisted-Suicide Movement : Insights and Strategies.
Author:
Olevitch, Barbara A.
ISBN:
9780313011986
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D. -- Foreword Albert Ellis -- Introduction -- PART I Do Psychiatric Patients Need Protection from Physician- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia? -- CHAPTER 1 Would Physician- Assisted Suicide Lead to More Suicides? -- CHAPTER 2 Would Physician- Assisted Suicide Lead to Euthanasia? -- CHAPTER 3 The Beginnings of the Fear of Medical Technology -- CHAPTER 4 The Movement to Legalize and Otherwise Promote Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in America -- PART II What Mental Health Professionals Can Do -- CHAPTER 5 Soothing Fears that Progress in Medicine Will Lead to Financial Disaster -- CHAPTER 6 Establishing a Productive Frame of Reference for Psychological Problems -- CHAPTER 7 Refusing to Do Consultations That Justify Physician- Assisted Suicide -- CHAPTER 8 Insuring the Integrity of Informed Consent -- CHAPTER 9 Promoting Palliative Care in Medicine and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 10 Taking a Personal Position against Physician- Assisted Suicide -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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