Physician-assisted suicide / Robert F. Weir, editor
- Bib ID:
- 95008
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997
- xvii, 266 pages ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0253332826 (alkaline paper) (cl)
- Series:
- Medical ethics series.
- Full contents:
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- 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 ofppeals, Ninth Circuit, 1996
- App. Quill v. Vacco, United States Court of Appea ls, Second Circuit, 1996.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Weir, Robert F., 1943-
- Copyright:
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