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1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) |
Series |
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 38 |
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International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 38.
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Contents |
Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized? / Gerald Dworkin -- Slippery slopes and physician-assisted suicide / Neil Levy -- Physician-assisted suicide and the medical associations / Dieter Birnbacher -- Safe, legal, rare? Physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future / Margaret Pabst Battin -- Palliative options of last resort: a comparison of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, terminal sedation, physician-assisted suicide, and voluntary active euthanasia / Timothy E. Quill, Bernard Lo, Dan W. Brock -- Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon / Linda Ganzini, Edgar Dahl -- Physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Belgium / John Griffiths -- Physician-assisted suicide and the German criminal law / Gabriele Wolfslast -- Physician-assisted death: an Australian perspective / Alan Rothschild -- Assisted dying: the view from the United Kingdom / Sheila A.M. McLean -- Physician-assisted suicide: a doctor's perspective / Pieter Admiraal -- Physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland: a personal report / Elke M. Baezner-Sailer -- The European convention on human rights protects the right of suicide / Ludwig A. Minelli |
Summary |
If it comes to choosing between methods of last resort for severely suffering, physician-assisted suicide will probably prove more acceptable as a method of last resort than active euthanasia both to patients, to legislators and to the general public. From the perspective of patients, physician-assisted is a more unambiguous expression of the patient's autonomous will. From the legislator's perspective it seems less liable to misuse and abuse. And often the availability of assisted suicide, instead of shortening the life of a patient, has proved to prolong it. Public policy has begun to respon |
Analysis |
Euthanasia |
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Right to die |
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Medical profession |
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Medical ethics |
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Palliative care |
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Decriminalisation |
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European Convention on Human Rights |
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Legislation |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Assisted suicide.
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Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation.
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Suicide, Assisted [MESH]
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Euthanasia, Active -- ethics [mesh]
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Euthanasia, Active -- legislation & jurisprudence [mesh]
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Public Policy [MESH]
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Right to Die [MESH]
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Suicide, Assisted -- legislation & jurisprudence [mesh]
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Suicide, Assisted
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suicides.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Assisted suicide
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Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Birnbacher, Dieter
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Dahl, Edgar, 1962-
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ISBN |
9781402064968 |
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1402064969 |
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9781402064951 |
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1402064950 |
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6611205411 |
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9786611205416 |
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