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Physician-assisted suicide / Robert F. Weir, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical ethics seriesPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585163731
  • 9780585163734
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Physician-assisted suicide.DDC classification:
  • 179/.7 21
LOC classification:
  • R726 .P49 1997eb
NLM classification:
  • 1998 C-474
  • W 50
Other classification:
  • 44.02
  • 44.62
Online resources:
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.
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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 of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1996 -- App. Quill v. Vacco, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1996.

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