Protecting psychiatric patients and others from the assisted-suicide movement [electronic resource] : insights and strategies / Barbara A. Olevitch ; foreword by Gregory Hamilton ; foreword by Albert Ellis
- Author:
- Olevitch, Barbara A.
- Published:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 203 p. ; 25 cm.
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I: Do Psychiatric Patients Need Protection from Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia? -- 1 Would Physician-Assisted Sbicide Lead to More Suicides? -- 2 Would Physician-Assisted Suicide Lead to Euthanasia? -- 3 The Beginnings of the Fear of Medical Technology -- 4 The Movement to Legalize and Otherwise Promote Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in America -- Part II: What Mental Health Professionals Can Do -- 5 Soothing Fears that Progress in Medicine Will Lead to Financial Disaster -- 6 Establishing a Productive Frame of Reference for Psychological Problems -- 7 Refusing to Do Consultations That Justify Physician-Assisted Suicide -- 8 Insuring the Integrity of Informed Consent -- 9 Promoting Palliative Care in Medicine and Mental Health -- 10 Taking a Personal Position against Physician-Assisted Suicide.
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- ISBN:
- 0275969576 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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