Regulating How We Die The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide

Name: Regulating How We Die The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide
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ISBN: 9780674666542

ISBN-10: 0674666542

ISBN-13: 9780674666542

Edition: 1998

Authors: Linda L. Emanuel

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The Supreme Court has rules that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. In this book, a team of leading experts examine the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 585
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946



Preface



Considerations in Favor


Helping Desperately Ill People to Die



Is a Physician Ever Obligated to Help a Patient Die?



Harming, Healing, and Euthanasia




Considerations Against


The False Promise of Beneficent Killing



Facing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Children and Adolescents



Religious Viewpoints




Perspectives


Factual Findings



Why Now?



The Bell Tolls for a Right to Suicide



A Question of Balance



Notes


Acknowledgments


Index