Research Catalog

Title

End-of-life decisions : a psychosocial perspective / edited by Maurice D. Steinberg, Stuart J. Youngner.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Steinberg, Maurice.
• Youngner, Stuart J.

Description

xv, 322 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Issues in psychiatry

Uniform Title

Issues in psychiatry.

Subjects

• Euthanasia > Psychological aspects
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Euthanasia > Social aspects
• Counseling
• Euthanasia, Passive > psychology
• Right to die > Social aspects
• Suicide, Assisted > psychology
• Right to Die
• Decision Making
• Right to die > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Paul S. Appelbaum -- 1. Introduction / Maurice D. Steinberg and Stuart J. Youngner -- 2. Competence to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment / Stuart J. Youngner -- 3. Depression and the Refusal of Life-Saving Medical Treatment / Mark D. Sullivan -- 4. Family Dynamics in Decisions to Withhold or Withdraw Treatment / Ellen Rothchild -- 5. Obstacles to Doctor-Patient Communication at the End of Life / Mary F. Morrison -- 6. Consultation to End-of-Life Treatment Decisions in Children / Julie R. Van der Feen and Michael S. Jellinek -- 7. End-of-Life Decisions in AIDS / Alexandra Beckett -- 8. Evaluating Patient Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Terminal Illness: The Role of the Psychiatrist / Susan D. Block and J. Andrew Billings -- 9. Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Decision Making / Alan Meisel -- 10. Termination-of-Treatment Decisions: Ethical Underpinnings / David Mayo -- 11. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Moral Questions / Daniel Callahan.

ISBN

0880487569 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

97052636

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries