Protecting psychiatric patients and others from the assisted-suicide movement :
[Book]
insights and strategies /
Barbara A. Olevitch ; foreword by Gregory Hamilton ; foreword by Albert Ellis.
Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
2002.
1 online resource (xvi, 203 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Protecting psychiatric patients and others from the assisted-suicide movement.