Editors:
- Written by experts in the field
- The first book to consider all aspects of suicide in the elderly in all contexts
- The only text that discusses a neutral approach to clinical criteria current psychopharmacological and psychodynamic guidelines for rational suicide in the elderly
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Rational Suicide in the Elderly is an excellent resource for all medical professionals with potentially suicidal patients, including geriatricians, geriatric and general psychiatrists, geriatric nurses, social workers, and public health officials.
Reviews
“The book discusses the recent movement toward legislation in the United States and in some European countries to provide a legal framework for ‘assisted suicide.’ … the book’s major appeal will be to clinicians from both the mental and general health arenas who work with older and chronically ill individuals and to teachers interested in educating our trainees to work more collaboratively and empathically with older adults … .” (Ira M. Lesser, American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 174 (6), June, 2017)
“Psychiatrists Robert E. McCue and Meera Balasubramaniam aim to provide a comprehensive overview of rational suicide among older adults, from the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines. … the authors get credit for tackling a difficult subject and assembling a set of chapters from diverse disciplines. This book is most likely to be of interest to readers who agree with the perspective that suicide in older adults who are not terminally ill can be rational.” (Amy Fiske and Julie Lutz, The Gerontologist, Vol. 57 (5), 2017)
“The purpose is to provide clinicians with guidance in managing a small population of older adults who want to have control of when and how they die. … This book is intended for use by medical professionals who work with older adults, including geriatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care doctors, hospitalists, palliative care specialists, educators, nurses, and social workers. … provides an excellent overview of this topic and is recommended for anyone prepared to work in this challenging, shifting clinical arena.” (Danielle L. Anderson, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
Robert E. McCue, Meera Balasubramaniam
About the editors
Meera Balasubramaniam, M.D., MPH Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rational Suicide in the Elderly
Book Subtitle: Clinical, Ethical, and Sociocultural Aspects
Editors: Robert E. McCue, Meera Balasubramaniam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32672-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32670-2Published: 08 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81343-1Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32672-6Published: 27 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 224
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Public Health, General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine