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Publication Date: January 1986
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Solomon Schimmel
Research Area: Culture and religion; Health
Keywords: Ethics; Health; Terminally Ill
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Psychological assumptions about human behavior are central to the question of disclosure to terminal patients by physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, philosophers, theologians and legal scholars. In addition to the clarification of theoretical aspects of the issues, further empirical research on the reaction of patients and other concerned parties to disclosure and to non-disclosure is necessary if we wish to make ethical choices and decisions that will be based upon more accurate knowledge of actual human behavior rather than upon speculative assumptions and generalizations about such behavior.