Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Law

Katz, Jay

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In this eye-opening look at the doctor-patient decision-making process, physician and law professor Jay Katz examines the time-honored belief in the virtue of silent care and patient compliance. Historically, the doctor-patient relationship has been based on a one-way trust-despite recent judicial attempts to give patients a greater voice through the doctrine of informed consent. Katz criticizes doctors for encouraging patients to relinquish their autonomy, and demonstrates the detrimental effect their silence has on good patient care. Seeing a growing need in this age of medical science and sophisticated technology for more honest and complete communication between physician and patients, he advocates a new, informed dialogue that respects the rights and needs of both sides. In a new foreword to this edition of The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, Alexander Morgan Capron outlines the changes in medical ethics practice that have occurred since the book was first published in 1984, paying particular attention to the hotly debated issues of physician-assisted suicide and informed consent in managed care.

The Silent World of Doctor and Patient

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Johns Hopkins University Press

In recent years, increasing concern has been voiced about the nature and extent of human experimentation and its impact on the investigator, subject, science, and society. This casebook represents the first attempt to provide comprehensive materials for studying the human experimentation process. Through case studies from medicine, biology, psychology, sociology, and law―as well as evaluative materials from many other disciplines―Dr. Katz examines the problems raised by human experimentation from the vantage points of each of its major participants―investigator, subject, professions, and state. He analyzes what kinds of authority should be delegated to these participants in the formulation, administration, and review of the human experimentation process. Alternative proposals, from allowing investigators a completely free hand to imposing centralized governmental control, are examined from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The conceptual framework of Experimentation with Human Beings is designed to facilitate not only the analysis of such concepts as "harm," "benefit," and "informed consent," but also the exploration of the problems raised by man's quest for knowledge and mastery, his willingness to risk human life, and his readiness to delegate authority to professionals and rely on their judgment.

Experimentation with Human Beings: The Authority of the Investigator, Subject, Professions, and State in the Human Experimentation Process

Capron, Alexander Morgan

Glass, Eleanor Swift

Psychology & Counseling

Russell Sage Foundation

People do not choose to suffer from catastrophic illnesses, but considerable human choice is involved in the ways in which the participants in the process treat and conduct research on these diseases. Catastrophic Diseases draws a powerful and humane portrait of the patients who suffer from these illnesses as well as of the physician-investigators who treat them, and describes the major pressures, conflicts, and decisions which confront all of them. By integrating a discussion of "facts" and "values," the authors highlight the forces which affect new developments in medicine―such as kidney and heart transplants―and the controversial issues they generate. Katz and Capron explore these issues through the use of dual conceptual perspectives. Their study first examines and evaluates the authority which should be vested in each of the chief participants in the catastrophic disease process―the physician-investigator, the patient-subject and his relatives, the professionals, and the state. Challenging questions are raised concerning medical education, informed consent, and professional responsibility. The authors next explore how the roles and capacities of the participants vary not only according to the basic issues they face but also according to the point in decision-making at which these issues arise. The process of investigating and treating catastrophic diseases, the authors believe, can thus usefully be divided into three decision-making stages―the formulation of policy, the administration of research and therapy, and the review of the decisions and their consequences. In conclusion, Katz and Capron demonstrate the need for a variety of individuals and groups with diverse values to be involved in decision-making in a manner which will not unnecessarily impede the scientific investigation of these diseases.

Catastrophic Diseases: Who Decides What?

An important contribution in the burgeoning literature relating to the delivery of medical care, and to the broader question of responsible decision-making in those social areas where tragic choices have to be made. The effort is an excellent example of research into, and therapy for, an important social process.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig’s masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses the smaller version of a writer’s own ego. Unconscious though it is, no reality is as important to the writer as the reality of their own life. Giacomo Casanova, Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), and Leo Tolstoy have different approaches to self-portraiture, but Zweig shows that together they symbolize three levels which represent successively ascending gradations of the same creative function. Casanova is depicted as having a primitive gradation; he simply records deeds and happenings, without any attempt to appraise them or to study the deeper working of the self. Stendhal’s self-portraiture is depicted as psychological; he observes himself and investigates his own feelings. Tolstoy has the highest level; he describes his own life, records what led him to his own actions, and focuses on self-reflection in a completely unexaggerated manner. At first glance it might seem as if self-portraiture is an artist’s easiest task. With no further trouble than a probing of memory and a description of the facts of life, "the truth" is revealed. The history of literature shows that ordinary autobiographers are no more than commonplace witnesses testifying to facts that chance has brought to their knowledge. A practiced artist is needed to discern the innermost happenings of the soul; few who have attempted autobiography have been successful in this difficult task. The present volume expounds the characteristics of these subjectively minded artists, and of autobiography as their typical method of personal expression.

Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Volume 3, Master Builders of the Spirit

Literature & Fiction

Zweig,Stefan

History & Criticism

The completely updated Tools &amp; Techniques of Estate Planning, 17th edition, applies the trusted “Tools &amp; Techniques” approach to this complex area, enabling you to: •Help your clients effectively preserve their assets under current law •Handle the widest variety of estates •Save significant amounts of time with exclusive estate planning tools In addition to everything that made the first 16 editions so effective and popular, this new edition delivers enhancements covering: •Wills •Selection of Executors, Trustee, and Attorneys •Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Taxes •Income Taxation •Marital Deduction and Bypass Trusts •Family Limited Partnerships •Estate Planning for Clients and Beneficiaries with Special Needs •Use of Corporate Entities •Post-DOMA Planning Techniques •And much more All relevant legislative changes are applied throughout.

The Tools & Techniques of Estate Planning 17th edition

Business & Money

Shenkman, Martin M.

Leimberg, Stephan R.

Insurance

The National Underwriter Company

This single-volume reference takes you through all the income tax topics your clients may encounter, no matter where they originate, providing easy-to-understand, practical guidance for situations that are often confusing.

Tools & Techniques of Income Tax Planning 5th edition

Jackson, Michael S.

The 18th edition of The Tools &amp; Techniques of Estate Planning provides the tools and techniques that every estate planner, financial planner, and insurance professional needs to help their clients preserve their assets under current law. It is completely updated and delivers numerous enhancements including new guidance on Data Gathering and Analysis; Death Tax Apportionment; Digital Assets, and much more.

Tools & Techniques of Estate Planning 18th edition

Reference

Hood, L. Paul

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