Pain, Anxiety, and Grief : : Pharmacotherapeutic Care of the Dying Patient and the Bereaved / / ed. by Sidney Malitz, Austin H. Kutscher, Ivan K. Goldberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Benjamin, David M.,; Blacher, Richard S.,; Carr, Daniel,; Chien, Ching-Piao,; Danto, Bruce L.,; Evans, Wayne Ο.,; Goldberg, Ivan K.,; Greenberg, Irwin M.,; Kalayam, Balu,; Keeri-Szanto, M.,; Kellner, Robert,; Klagsbrun, Samuel C.,; Murray, Patricia,; Muskin, Philip R.,; Rada, Richard T.,; Regelson, William,; Rifkin, Arthur,; Santore, Anthony F.,; Seeland, Irene B.,; Silver, Reuben J.,; Skversky, Arleen I.,; Steckel, Steven,; Tislow, Richard E.,; Twycross, Robert G.,; Valentine, Amy,; Weintraub, Michael,; Winslow, Walter W.,; Wolf, Stewart G.,; Wright, Irving S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Goldberg, Ivan K.,; Kutscher, Austin H.,; Malitz, Sidney,
• TeilnehmendeR: Kutscher, Lillian G.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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