Suicide risk and pain in cancer and AIDS patients Conference Paper
| Author: | Breitbart, W. |
| Editors: | Chapman, C. R.; Foley, K. M. |
| Title: | Suicide risk and pain in cancer and AIDS patients |
| Conference Title: | 3rd Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium on Pain Research |
| Abstract: | the information presented in this chapter suggests that danger lies in the premature assumption that suicidal ideation or a request to hasten death in a cancer or AIDS patient represents a "rational act" unencumbered by physical symptom distress or psychiatric comorbidity / the vast majority of cancer or AIDS patients, particularly those with advanced disease, who express suicidal ideation or request a hastened death do so while suffering with unrecognized and untreated psychiatric disturbances (depression, confusional states), and poorly controlled physical symptoms (pain) euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Keywords: | patients with cancer or aids; reasons for suicidal ideation |
| Journal Title | Current and Emerging Issues in Cancer Pain: Research and Practice |
| Conference Dates: | 1992 Jul 23-26 |
| Conference Location: | Seattle, WA |
| ISBN: | 0-7817-0007-8 |
| Publisher: | Raven Press, Ltd. |
| Date Published: | 1993-01-01 |
| Start Page: | 49 |
| End Page: | 65 |
| Language: | English |
| ACCESSION: | 1993-98474-003 |
| PROVIDER: | Ovid Technologies |
| PROVIDER: | psycinfo |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Chapter 4 -- Source: PsycINFO |
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