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Law at the end of life : the Supreme Court and assisted suicide / edited by Carl E. Schneider.

Other author/creatorSchneider, Carl, 1948-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Descriptionvi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Political questions, judicial questions, and the problem of Washington v Glucksberg / Carl E. Schneider -- The road to Glucksberg / Carl E. Schneider -- Ambivalent unanimity: an analysis of the Supreme Court's holding / Sonia M. Suter -- On the meaning and impact of the physician-assisted suicide cases / Yale Kamisar -- The Supreme Court and end-of-life care: principled distinctions or slippery slope? / Rebecca Dresser -- Physician-assisted suicide in the courts: moral equivalence, double effect, and clinical practice / Howard Brody -- A part of the main? the physician-assisted suicide cases and comparative law methodology in the United States Supreme Court / Christopher McCrudden -- Making biomedical policy through constitutional adjudication: the example of physician-assisted suicide / Carl E. Schneider -- Eugenic euthanasia in early twentieth-century America and medically assisted suicide today: differences and similarities / Martin S. Pernick -- Assisted suicide and the challenge of individually determined collective rationality / Peter J. Hammer -- From story to law: euthanasia and authenticity / Arthur W. Frank -- Concluding thoughts: bioethics in the language of the law / Carl E. Schneider.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 00034388
ISBN0472111574 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks KF3827.E87 L39 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold