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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]
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Year of Publication:1986
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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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