1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464099503321

Autore

Douglas Molly (Physician)

Titolo

Psychiatry on the move / / authors, Molly Douglas, Harriet Walker, Helen Casey ; editorial advisor, Simon Matta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Florida : , : Hodder Arnold, , 2013

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Medicine on the Move

Disciplina

616.890076

Soggetti

Psychiatry - Examinations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

"Mobile access included"--Cover.

Nota di contenuto

FrontCover ; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; An explanation of the text; Part I. Mental health assessment and service provision; Chapter 1. History and mental state examination; Chapter 2. Mental health and the law; Chapter 3. The multidisciplinary team approach to psychiatry; Part II. Mental health disorders; Chapter 4. Organic mental disorders; Chapter 5. Substance misuse; Chapter 6. Schizophrenia and delusional disorders; Chapter 7. Affective disorders; Chapter 8. Anxiety and neuroses; Chapter 9. Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbance

Chapter 10. Disorders of adult personalityChapter 11. Learning disability and child and adolescent disorders; Chapter 12. Forensic psychiatry; Chapter 13. Pharmacotherapy; Chapter 14. Electroconvulsive therapy and psychotherapy; Chapter 15. Psychiatric emergencies; Part III. Self-assessment; Chapter 16. Mental health assessment and service provision; Chapter 17. Mental health disorders; Chapter 18. Treatment and psychiatric emergencies; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Mental health assessment and service provision Psychiatric history and mental state examination Mental health and the law MDT approach to psychiatry Mental health disorders Organic mental disorders Mental disorders due to psychoactive substance use Schizophrenia and



delusional disorders Affective disorders Neurotic and somatoform disorders Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbance Disorders of adult personality Child and adolescent psychiatry Forensic psychiatry Treatment and psychiatric emergencies Pharmacotherapy ECT and psychotherapy Psychiatric emergencies Self-assess

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462297603321

Autore

Taylor James Stacey <1970-, >

Titolo

Death, posthumous harm, and bioethics / / James Stacey Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-70926-0

0-203-10642-3

1-136-25776-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Routledge annals of bioethics ; ; 12

Disciplina

128/.5

Soggetti

Death

Death - Moral and ethical aspects

Respect for persons

Dead

Bioethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Death Unterrible; Full-blooded Epicureanism and Contemporary Bioethics; A Note on Methodology; Outline of this Volume; 1 Posthumous Harm and Interest-based Accounts of Well-being; The Intuitive Case for Posthumous Harm; The Anti-Hedonistic Intuition; Wronging the Dead; The Feinberg-Pitcher Argument for Posthumous Harm; Assessing the Argument for Posthumous Harm; Accommodating Orphaned Intuitions; Accommodating Feinberg's and Parfit's Anti-Hedonistic Intuitions; Can the Dead be Wronged?



Portmore, Posthumous Harm, and the Desire Theory of WelfareConclusion; 2 Further Criticisms of the Possibility of Posthumous Harm; Levenbook's Account of Harm as Loss; Levenbook's Argument; Criticisms of Levenbook's Argument; Grover's Quality of Life Arguments; Grover's Argument; Criticisms of Grover's Argument; Sperling's Human Subject Account; Sperling's Argument; Criticisms of Sperling's Argument; Harm and Implication in Evil; Conclusion; 3 The Impossibility of Posthumous Harm; Death, Goods, and the Extinction of Desires; Responding to Luper; Towards Hedonism; Objects and Causes

Conclusion4 Can the Dead Be Wronged?; Desert and Injustice; Blustein and the "Dear Departed"; Responses to Blustein's Arguments; Response to the Rescue from Insignificance Argument; Response to the Enduring Duties Argument; Response to the Reciprocity Argument; Rights and Interests; Conclusion; 5 Why Death Is Not a Harm to the One Who Dies; The Epicurean Argument; Hedonism Revisited; Death and Deprivation; Does a Person's Death Deprive Her of the Goods of Life?; Responses to these Deprivation-based Arguments for the Harm of Death; The Existence Variant and Presentism Defended; Conclusion

6 Fearless SymmetryLucretian Arguments; Challenges to the Lucretian Symmetry Argument; Responses to Nagel's Objection; Stoic fate; Hetherington's Symmetry Arguments; Earlier Birth and Personal Identity; Kaufman's Defense of Nagel's Argument; Responses to Kaufman; Responses to the Other Criticisms of this Lucretian Argument; The Backfire Problem; Feldman's Objection; Parfit's Hospital Example; Conclusion; 7 Epicureanism, Suicide, and Euthanasia; McMahan's Reconciliation Strategy; An Epicurean Approach to Suicide and Euthanasia; Suicide; Euthanasia; Conclusion

8 Epicureanism and Organ ProcurementEpicureanism and Policies of Presumed Consent; Presumed Consent and the "Fewer Mistakes" Arguments; Autonomy-based "Fewer Mistakes" Arguments; Gill's Arguments; Why Gill's Argument against the Qualitative "Fewer Mistakes" Argument Fails; Objections to Gill's Quantitative Autonomy-based "Fewer Mistakes" Argument; The "Fewer Mistakes" Arguments and Violations of Autonomy; Presumed Consent and Respect for Autonomy; From Presumed Consent to Organ Taking; The Standard Pro-Taking Argument; Two Unjustified Assumptions-Moving Towards Markets

The Ownership of Organs

Sommario/riassunto

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a de



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693044603321

Titolo

Lincoln Highway [[electronic resource] ] : special resource study, environmental assessment

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, , [2004]

Soggetti

Historic sites - United States - Management

Roads - United States - History

Environmental impact analysis - United States

Lincoln Highway

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 5, 2004).

"May 2004."

Distributed to depository libraries in paper on shipping list no.: 2005-0148-P.