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ATTITUDES TOWARDS EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PSYCHIATRISTS AND OTHER PHYSICIANS

LEVY, TAL BERGMAN, AZAR, SHLOMI, HUBERFELD, RONEN, SIEGEL, ANDREW M., STROUS, RAEL D.·2013·Bioethics
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01968.x
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Euthanasia and physician assisted‐suicide are terms used to describe the process in which a doctor of a sick or disabled individual engages in an activity which directly or indirectly leads to their death. This behavior is engaged by the healthcare provider based on their humanistic desire to end suffering and pain. The psychiatrist's involvement may be requested in several distinct situations including evaluation of patient capacity when an appeal for euthanasia is requested on grounds of terminal somatic illness or when the patient is requesting euthanasia due to mental suffering. We compare attitudes of 49 psychiatrists towards euthanasia and assisted suicide with a group of 54 other physicians by means of a questionnaire describing different patients, who either requested physician‐assisted suicide or in whom euthanasia as a treatment option was considered, followed by a set of questions relating to euthanasia implementation. When controlled for religious practice, psychiatrists expressed more conservative views regarding euthanasia than did physicians from other medical specialties. Similarly female physicians and orthodox physicians indicated more conservative views. Differences may be due to factors inherent in subspecialty education. We suggest that in light of the unique complexity and context of patient euthanasia requests, based on their training and professional expertise psychiatrists are well suited to take a prominent role in evaluating such requests to die and making a decision as to the relative importance of competing variables.

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  • Cultural factors may also play a role, as shown in Israel, where psychiatrists displayed more conservative views on MAiD-NT for mental disorders than physicians from other medical specialties.

    “Cultural factors may also play a role, as shown in Israel, where psychiatrists displayed more conservative views on MAiD-NT for mental disorders than physicians from other medical specialties [49].”

    From Debating Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death in People with Psychiatric Disorders (2022) · cites this paper as [49]

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Authors
LEVY, T. B., AZAR, S., HUBERFELD, R., SIEGEL, A. M., & STROUS, R. D.
Affiliations
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Corresponding author
STROUS, RAEL D.
ORCID
Venue
Bioethics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2012-04-12
Volume
27
Issue
7
Pages
402-408
ISSN
  • 0269-9702 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8519
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01968.x
OpenAlex
W1587724788
Cited by
22
References
6
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2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
0.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Bioethics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
Keywords
euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, attitudes toward euthanasia, psychiatrists, physicians, religious practice, gender differences, physician specialty differences, end-of-life decisions, subspecialty training
MeSH terms
Workforce, Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Euthanasia, Female, Humans, Israel, Male, Middle Aged, Physicians, Psychiatry, Suicide, Assisted, Holocaust, History, 20th Century

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