About this book
Drug Use In Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia (monograph Published Simultaneously As The Journal Of Pharmaceutical Care In Pain & Symptom Control , Vol 3&4, No 1-4) by Margaret P. Battin, Arthur G. Lipman, M. Pabst Battin is a book available to read on EtoBox.
<p>Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia brings to the foreground of the controversy over euthanasia and assisted suicide not only the moral and legal issues, but also regulatory and empirical issues, issues of prudent public policy, and choice of drugs. You'll witness candid accounts of current practice, legal and extralegal, of drug use in assisted suicide and euthanasia, and be encouraged to objectively reexamine the issues that are at stake. With this book, you'll acquire a solid understanding of the array and complexity of the social questions faced by terminally ill patients, their physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia was chosen as one of Doody's "250 Best Health Sciences Books" for 1996!</p> <p>Much of the focus of Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia is on patient decisionmaking and the factors leading to a patient’s choice to hasten death. Readers learn from different medical perspectives, the key psychiatric, medical, and social factors that require assessment when terminally ill patients, such as those with AIDS or cancer, express the desire to die immediately. Readers are also introduced to issues about depression
- Author
- Margaret P. Battin, Arthur G. Lipman, M. Pabst Battin
- Publisher
- Pharmaceutical Products Press; CRC Press; Brand: CRC Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781560248149
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Medical, Humanities