Take some time to look inside their hearts: Hospice social workers contemplate physician assisted suicide

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 53-64

  Miller, Pamela J ^a   Mesler, Mark A ^b   Eggman, Susan T ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Death with dignity; End of life; Hospice; Physician assisted suicide; Qualitative research; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; EXPERIENCE; HOSPICE; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WORK; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; OREGON; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0036381209     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v35n03_04     Document Type: Article

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