Physician-assisted suicide /
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997. |
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| Description: | xvii, 266 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical ethics series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2722292 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Robert F. Weir
- 1. The Significance of Inaccurate History in Legal Considerations of Physician-Assisted Suicide / Darrel W. Amundsen
- 2. Doctors and the Dying of Patients in American History / Harold Y. Vanderpool
- 3. Self-Extinction: The Morality of the Helping Hand / Daniel Callahan
- 4. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Sometimes Morally Justified / Dan W. Brock
- 5. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Not an Acceptable Practice for Physicians / Ira R. Byock
- 6. Assisting in Patient Suicides Is an Acceptable Practice for Physicians / Howard Brody
- 7. Physician-Assisted Death in the Context of Disability / Kristi L. Kirschner, Carol J. Gill and Christine K. Cassel
- 8. Physician-Assisted Suicide, Abortion, and Treatment Refusal: Using Gender to Analyze the Difference / Susan M. Wolf
- 9. Considerations of Safeguards Proposed in Laws and Guidelines to Legalize Assisted Suicide / Steven Miles, Demetra M. Pappas and Robert Koepp
- 10. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Evolving Public Policies / William J. Winslade
- App. People v. Kevorkian, Supreme Court to Michigan, 1994
- App. Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1996
- App. Quill v. Vacco, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1996.
