Contents |
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. |
Contents |
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. |
General note | "May 1994." |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
Other forms | Issued also online. |
Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Richard Payne, donor. |
Issued in other form | Online version: New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. When death is sought. New York, N.Y. : New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, [1994] |
LCCN | 95620267 |
ISBN | 1881268012 |
ISBN | 9781881268017 |
Other class# |
LIF,500-4,WHEDI,94-27873 |
Govt. docs number |
LIF,500-4,WHEDI,94-27873 |