When death is sought : assisted suicide and euthanasia in the medical context.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, N.Y. : New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, [1994] Description: xvii, 217 p. : illISBN: 9781881268017; 1881268012Subject(s): New York State Task Force on Life and the Law | Euthanasia | Suicide, Assisted | Euthanasia, Active | Jurisprudence | Public Policy | Right to Die | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome | Advisory Committees | Aged | Critical Illness | Decision Making | Depressive Disorder | Dissent and Disputes | Euthanasia, Passive | Freedom | Group Processes | Homicide | Legislation as Topic | Mental Competency | Neoplasms | Pain | Palliative Care | Personal Autonomy | Physician's Role | Physicians | Politics | Professional Misconduct | Prognosis | Public Opinion | Risk | Social Change | State Government | Stress, Psychological | Suicide | Terminal Care | Terminally Ill | Withholding Treatment | New York | United States | Death and Euthanasia | Legal ApproachGenre/Form: Legislation | GuidelineNLM classification: 1996 M-567 | W 32.5 94NEOnline resources: Click here to access online Issued also online.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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UNEDITED/Tomas/2008
"May 1994."
Includes bibliographical references.
The epidemiology of suicide -- Suicide in the general population -- Risk factors for suicide -- Suicide and special patient populations -- Patients with cancer -- Patients with AIDS -- The elderly -- Clinical responses to pain and suffering -- Assessing pain and other symptoms -- Managing pain -- Treating other symptoms of illness -- Current clinical practice -- Decisions at life's end: existing law -- The right to decide about treatment -- Suicide and the law -- Assisted suicide -- Euthanasia -- Professional misconduct proceedings -- The Constitutional issues -- The ethical debate -- An historical perspective -- Distinguishing assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The appeal to autonomy -- Benefiting the patient -- Societal consequences -- The role and responsibilities of physicians -- Killing and allowing to die.
Crafting public policy on assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The question of legal change -- Response to proposed guidelines to legalize assisted suicide -- Distinguishing decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment -- Developing professional medical standards -- Caring for severely ill patients -- Decisions about life-sustaining treatment -- Improving palliative care -- Diagnosing and treating depression -- Responding when a patient requests assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Issued also online.
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