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Physician-assisted suicide /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Weir, Robert F., 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997]
Series:Medical ethics series.
Subjects:
Suicide, Assisted.
Ethics, Medical.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Historical interpretation
  • Significance of inaccurate history in legal considerations of physician-assisted suicide / Darrel W. Amundsen
  • Doctors and the dying of patients in American history / Harold Y. Vanderpool
  • Pt. 2. Ethical assessments and positions
  • Self-extinction: the morality of the helping hand / Daniel Callahan
  • Physician-assisted suicide is sometimes morally justified / Dan W. Brock
  • Pt. 3. Medical practices and perspectives.
  • Physician-assisted suicide is not an acceptable practice for physicians / Ira R. Byock
  • Assisting in patient suicides is an acceptable practice for physicians / Howard Brody
  • Pt. 4. Potentially vulnerable patients
  • Physician-assisted death in the context of disability / Kristi L. Kirschner, Carol J. Gill, and Christine K. Cassel
  • Physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and treatment refusal: using gender to analyze the difference / Susan M. Wolf.
  • Pt. 4. Potentially vulnerable patients
  • Physician-assisted death in the context of disability / Kristi L. Kirschner, Carol J. Gill, and Christine K. Cassel
  • Physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and treatment refusal: using gender to analyze the difference / Susan M. Wolf
  • Pt. 5. Considerations of safeguards proposed in laws and guidelines to legalize assisted suicide / Steven Miles, Demetra M. Pappas, and Robert Koepp / Physician-assisted suicide: evolving public policies / William J. Winslade.
  • Pt. 5. Considerations of safeguards proposed in laws and guidelines to legalize assisted suicide / Steven Miles, Demetra M. Pappas, and Robert Koepp / Physician-assisted suicide: evolving public policies / William J. Winslade
  • Appendixes
  • People v. Kevorkian, Supreme Court of Michigan, 1994
  • Compassion in dying v. state of Washington, United States Court of Appeals, ninth circuit, 1996
  • Quill v. Vacco, United States Court of Appeals, second circuit, 1996.