The seduction of autonomy: countertransference and physician aid in dying

Title: The seduction of autonomy: countertransference and physician aid in dying
Creator: Kelly, Brian; Varghese, Francis T. N.
Relation: When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in Palliative and End-of-Life Care p. 137-151
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315716022
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2016
Description: The request for physician aid in dying presents complex social, ethical, cultural, interpersonal, and psychological dilemmas. Current discussions of the issue tend to reduce these complexities to debates about individual rights and legal issues. This narrow view, however, does not take into consideration the interpersonal and social forces that shape the patient's appraisal of his or her illness and that in turn inform his or her personal choice for aid in dying. The doctor-patient relationship is only one such force but is nevertheless critical in influencing how patients perceive their situations, how they attribute meaning to them, and how they make decisions about whether to seek assistance in dying (Varghese & Kelly, 1999).
Description: 2nd ed.
Subject: physician aid; palliative care; terminal care; countertransference; physicians
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323770
Identifier: uon:24888
Identifier: ISBN:9781138884533
Language: eng

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