| Description |
xvi, 360 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Need to Objectively Examine Issues in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / Margaret P. Battin and Arthur G. Lipman -- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Arguments For and Against Practice, Legalization and Participation / Ronald Baker Miller -- Issues for Pharmacists in Assisted Patient Death / Michael T. Rupp -- Nursing Perspectives on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / Betty R. Ferrell and Lynne M. Rivera -- Suffering and the Dying Patient / C. Richard Chapman and Jonathan Gavrin -- End of Life Issues in Patients with AIDS: Clinical and Research Considerations / Steven D. Passik, Margaret V. McDonald, Barry D. Rosenfeld and William S. Breitbart -- A View of Current Law on Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life / Robert T. Angarola and Gail P. Middlekauff -- Is Physician Aid-in-Dying a Constitutional Right? / Kathryn L. Tucker -- Current Law on Physician-Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill / Cheryl K. Smith |
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Pharmacists' Response to Oregon's Death with Dignity Act / Kristine Carlson Marcus -- Regulatory Issues in Euthanasia, Palliative Care and Assisted Suicide / William L. Marcus -- Lethal Drugs for Assisted Suicide: How the Public Sees It / Derek Humphry -- Observations Concerning Terminally Ill Patients Who Choose Suicide / Thomas A. Preston and Ralph Mero -- Euthanasia and Euthanizing Drugs in the Netherlands / Gerrit K. Kimsma -- Toxicological Issues with Drugs Used to End Life / Barbara Insley Crouch -- When Drugs Fail: Assisted Deaths and Not-So-Lethal Drugs / Stephen Jamison -- Position Statements on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide / Edited by Arthur G. Lipman -- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Cases and Commentaries / Edited by Sharon M. Valente and Judith M. Saunders |
| Notes |
Also published as: Journal of pharmaceutical care in pain & symptom control, v.4, nos. 1/2, 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation.
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Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Drugs -- Prescribing -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Euthanasia -- Law and legislation.
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Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Pharmacists -- Professional ethics.
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| Author |
Battin, M. Pabst.
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Lipman, Arthur G.
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| LC no. |
95049632 |
| ISBN |
1560248149 |
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