The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care
Herbert Hendin & Kathleen Foley (Eds.), 2002, The John Hopkins University Press.
An argument against physician-assisted suicide.

Life and Death Decisions: Psychological and Ethical Considerations in End-Of-Life Care
Phillip M. Kleespies, 2004, American Psychological Association.
Offering a presentation of the major moral, value-based, and ethical principles that guide end-of-life decision making, including autonomy, beneficence, mercy and justice, the author reviews the crucial elements of informed consent, competence, and other issues that guide the American legal system's stance on this controversial debate. This book articulates the role and functions that mental health practitioners - particularly psychologists - can fulfill as members of end-of-life interdisciplinary teams to help individuals interact more fully with their loved ones and make real decisions on a path toward increasing probability of death with dignity.

Psychosocial Issues Near the End of Life: A Resource For Professional Care Providers
James L. Werth & Dean Blevins (Eds.), 2005, American Psychological Association.
This is a collection of scholarly studies of the issues — physical, moral, ethical and psychological — that face professional care providers, especially psychologists, when treating the terminally ill patient.

Risk Management with Suicidal Patients
Edited by Bruce Bongar, Ph.D., Ronald W. Maris, Ph.D., Morton M. Silverman, MD, Eric A. Harris, EdD, JD, & Wendy L. Packman, JD, Ph.D., 1998, Guilford Publications, New York.
Drawing upon years of clinical experience, as well as extensive malpractice claims data and relevant case law, this book outlines effective assessment, management, and treatment procedures that balance the need for high-quality care with the requirements for court-determined and statutory standards.

The Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of Care
Bruce Bongar, 1992, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Proposes standards of care and a working model for the assessment, management, and treatment of the suicidal patient in both inpatient and outpatient contexts. Offers an integrated clinical and legal approach to an understanding of patient suicide.