Pain, Anxiety, and Grief : : Pharmacotherapeutic Care of the Dying Patient and the Bereaved / / ed. by Sidney Malitz, Austin H. Kutscher, Ivan K. Goldberg.
Discusses the use and prescription of narcotics and other drugs in the treatment of pain, anxiety, and grief in three sections: the practical, ethical, a moral issues related to pharmacotherapy, controlling the pain of a dying patient, and relieving the grief and anxiety of bereavement.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986] ©1986 |
Year of Publication: | 1986 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- I. Practical, Ethical, and Moral Issues Relating to Pharmacotherapy -- 1. General Systems Approach to the Psychopharmacologic Treatment of the Dying Patient -- 2. The Needs of Dying Patients -- 3. Practical and Philosophical Concepts of Pain Control -- 4. Some Limits of Psychotropic Drugs in Supportive Treatment of Oncology Patients -- 5. Psychological Hazards of Drug Therapy -- 6. Drugs, Physicians, and Patients -- 7. Problems of Polypharmacy -- 8. Suicide by Drug Overdose -- II. Controlling the Dying Patient’s Pain -- 9. Pain Control in the Treatment of Cancer -- 10. The Use of Diamorphine in the Management of Terminal Cancer (Historical and Chronological Evolution, 1971) -- 11. The Use and Abuse of Narcotic Analgesics in Terminal Cancer (Historical and Chronological Evolution, 1974) -- 12. Continuing and Terminal Care – Overview of Analgesia (Historical and Chronological Evolution, 1978) -- 13. Cancer Pain: A Comparison of Methadone, Methadone-Cocaine, and Methadone-Amphetamine -- 14. Utility of a Combination of Stimulant Drugs with Opiates in the Production of Analgesia -- 15. Pharmacokinetic Aspects of Analgesia During Palliative Care -- 16. Relief for the Dying and the Bereaved: The Role of Psychopharmacologic Agents and Analgesics -- 17. The Cancer Ward -- 18. Pharmacologic Agents – Barriers or Tools? -- 19. Psychological Responses in the Dying Patient: A Role for Behaviorally Active Peptide Hormones? -- III. Relieving the Grief and Anxiety of Bereavement -- 20. Acute Grief: A Physician’s Viewpoint -- 21. Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Bereavement -- 22. Tricyclic Antidepressants in the Treatment of Depression in Conjugal Bereavement: A Controlled Study -- 23. The Relevance of Psychopharmacologic Agents for the Bereaved in a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) -- Index -- List of Contributors |
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Summary: | Discusses the use and prescription of narcotics and other drugs in the treatment of pain, anxiety, and grief in three sections: the practical, ethical, a moral issues related to pharmacotherapy, controlling the pain of a dying patient, and relieving the grief and anxiety of bereavement. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231887694 9783110442489 |
DOI: | 10.7312/gold92234 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Sidney Malitz, Austin H. Kutscher, Ivan K. Goldberg. |