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

Contributor(s): Weir, Robert F, 1943-.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical ethics series. Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1997Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xvii, 266 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0253332826 (cl : alk. paper).Subject(s): Assisted suicide | Assisted suicide -- United States | Medical ethicsDDC classification: 179/.7
Contents:
Significance of inaccurate history in legal considerations of physician-assisted suicide / Darrel W. Amundsen -- Doctors and the dying of patients in American history / Harold Y. Vanderpool -- Self-extinction: the morality of the helping hand / Daniel Callahan -- Physician-assisted suicide is sometimes morally justified / Dan W. Brock -- Physician-assisted suicide is not an acceptable practice for physicians / Ira R. Byock -- Assisting in patient suicides is an acceptable practice for physicians / Howard Brody.
Physician-assisted death in the context of disability / Kristi L. Kirschner, Carol J. Gill, and Christine K. Cassel -- Physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and treatment refusal: using gender to analyze the difference / Susan M. Wolf -- Considerations of safeguards proposed in laws and guidelines to legalize assisted suicide / Steven Miles, Demetra M. Pappas, and Robert Koepp / Physician-assisted suicide: evolving public policies / William J. Winslade.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Significance of inaccurate history in legal considerations of physician-assisted suicide / Darrel W. Amundsen -- Doctors and the dying of patients in American history / Harold Y. Vanderpool -- Self-extinction: the morality of the helping hand / Daniel Callahan -- Physician-assisted suicide is sometimes morally justified / Dan W. Brock -- Physician-assisted suicide is not an acceptable practice for physicians / Ira R. Byock -- Assisting in patient suicides is an acceptable practice for physicians / Howard Brody.

Physician-assisted death in the context of disability / Kristi L. Kirschner, Carol J. Gill, and Christine K. Cassel -- Physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and treatment refusal: using gender to analyze the difference / Susan M. Wolf -- Considerations of safeguards proposed in laws and guidelines to legalize assisted suicide / Steven Miles, Demetra M. Pappas, and Robert Koepp / Physician-assisted suicide: evolving public policies / William J. Winslade.

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