Secrets of the couch and the grave: The anne sexton case

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-203

  Pellegrino, Edmund D ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANNE SEXTON: A BIOGRAPHY (MIDDLEBROOK, D.W.); ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LITERATURE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; MORALITY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLIC FIGURE; SUICIDE; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

ANNE SEXTON: A BIOGRAPHY (MIDDLEBROOK, D.W.); MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CODES OF ETHICS; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISCLOSURE; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SUICIDE; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030100237     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180100006939     Document Type: Article

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10. At this writing, there are 36 published book reviews. Surprisingly, little or nothing has been said by ethicists on this case.
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