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] ©1986 |
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