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• Title:End-of-life decisions : a psychosocial perspective / edited by Maurice D. Steinberg, Stuart J. Youngner.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Steinberg, Maurice.
  Youngner, Stuart J.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, ©1998.
  

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  • Call Number: W85.5 .E56 1998
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W85.5 .E56 1998
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Euthanasia--Psychological aspects.
  Euthanasia--Social aspects.
  Right to die--Psychological aspects.
  Right to die--Social aspects.
  Death--Psychological aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Decision Making.
  Right to Die.
  Counseling.
  Euthanasia, Passive--psychology.
  Suicide, Assisted--psychology.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xv, 322 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Issues in psychiatry.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0880487569 (acid-free paper)
  9780880487566 (acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Paul S. Appelbaum
  Introduction / Maurice D. Steinberg, Stuart J. Youngner
  Competence to refuse life-sustaining treatment / Stuart J. Youngner
  Depression and the refusal of life-saving medical treatment / Mark D. Sullivan
  Family dynamics in decisions to withhold or withdraw treatment / Ellen Rothchild
  Obstacles to doctor-patient communication at the end of life / Mary F. Morrison
  Consultation to end-of-life treatment decisions in children / Julie R. Van der Feen, Michael S. Jellinek. End-of-life decisions in AIDS / Alexandra Beckett
  Evaluating patient requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide in terminal illness : the role of the psychiatrist / Susan D. Block, J. Andrew Billings
  Legal aspects of end-of-life decision making / Alan Meisel
  Termination-of-treatment decisions : ethical underpinnings / David Mayo
  Physician-assisted suicide : moral questions / Daniel Callahan.