Psychosocial versus biomedical risk factors in Kevorkian's first forty-seven physician-assisted deaths

Omega

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 109-163

  Kaplan, Kalman J ^a,b   Lachenmeier, Flint ^b   Harrow, Martin ^c   O'Dell, Jyll C ^d   Uziel, Oren ^e   Schneiderhan, Mark ^f   Cheyfitz, Kirk ^g  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d John Jay College of Justice

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; AUTOPSY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSON; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTIVATION; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

AGE FACTORS; AUTOPSY; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSONS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTIVATION; PAIN; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033489571     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/vb3h-c5kh-uutp-bkxb     Document Type: Review

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