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

Other author Weir, Robert F., 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxvii, 266 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Assisted suicide.
Assisted suicide--United States.

SeriesMedical ethics series
Medical ethics series. ^A148140
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.
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96049417
ISBN0253332826 (cl : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks R726 .P49 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold