Last rights. In sickness and in health, more people are taking life's biggest decision away from doctors and into their own hands

When dying is all that awaits them, more and more people are choosing certain death now rather than uncertain life on medical support systems. But the decision seldom comes easy, as a Newsweek reporter discovers during three weeks with the doctors, nurses, patients and families in an intensive-care ward. A best-selling guide to suicide fires debate over when it is right to let life go--and who should make that choice when the patient no longer can.     

Money madness. Are private psychiatric hospitals resorting to kidnapping in their quest for paying patients?

In their zeal for lucrative insurance reimbursement, some private psychiatric hospitals seem to have gone over the edge themselves. A number of these institutions, critics charge, use outright coercion to commit and retain patients. Now some formerly abducted "recruits" are fighting back with lawsuits.     

被告人心理状态与审讯策略

<正> 以前研究审讯策略问题时,主要注意力大多放在被告人的气质、性格、感觉、知觉、记忆、思维、想像等心理现象方面。最近,许多学者已着手研究被告人心理状态在审讯中的作用以及如何利用的问题。他们达样做是有根据的。例如,达维多夫指出:"人的哪些心理应用哪些方法来影响,应有一个明确的概念",他认为心理状态是心理现象中的一个独立状态。在瓦西里耶夫、多斯普洛夫、杜洛夫、格拉兹林、拉季诺夫、罗什、茨维特科夫等人的著作中,对被告人