The case against assisted suicide : for the right to end-of-life care /
The case against assisted suicide : for the right to end-of-life care /
edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- xii, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"I will give no deadly drug": why doctors must not kill / Compassion is not enough / Reason, self-determination, and physician-assisted suicide / The rise and fall of the "right" to assisted suicide / The Dutch experience / Palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands: observations of a Dutch physician / The Oregon experiment / Oregon's culture of silence / Deadly days in Darwin / Not dead yet / Vulnerable people: practical rejoinders to claims in favor of assisted suicide / Depression and the will to live in the psychological landscape of terminally ill patients / A hospice perspective / Compassionate care, not assisted suicide / Leon R. Kass -- Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Daniel Callahan -- Yale Kamisar -- Herbert Hendin -- Zbigniew Zylicz -- Kathleen Foley ; Herbert Hendin -- N. Gregory Hamilton -- David W. Kissane -- Diane Coleman -- Felicia Cohn ; Joanne Lynn -- Harvey M. Chochinov ; Leonard Schwartz -- Cicely Saunders -- Kathleen Foley.
0801867924 (alk. paper)
2001000823
101087438 DNLM
Assisted suicide.
Suicide, Assisted--legislation & jurisprudence.
Terminal care.
Aide au suicide.
R726 / .C355 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"I will give no deadly drug": why doctors must not kill / Compassion is not enough / Reason, self-determination, and physician-assisted suicide / The rise and fall of the "right" to assisted suicide / The Dutch experience / Palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands: observations of a Dutch physician / The Oregon experiment / Oregon's culture of silence / Deadly days in Darwin / Not dead yet / Vulnerable people: practical rejoinders to claims in favor of assisted suicide / Depression and the will to live in the psychological landscape of terminally ill patients / A hospice perspective / Compassionate care, not assisted suicide / Leon R. Kass -- Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Daniel Callahan -- Yale Kamisar -- Herbert Hendin -- Zbigniew Zylicz -- Kathleen Foley ; Herbert Hendin -- N. Gregory Hamilton -- David W. Kissane -- Diane Coleman -- Felicia Cohn ; Joanne Lynn -- Harvey M. Chochinov ; Leonard Schwartz -- Cicely Saunders -- Kathleen Foley.
0801867924 (alk. paper)
2001000823
101087438 DNLM
Assisted suicide.
Suicide, Assisted--legislation & jurisprudence.
Terminal care.
Aide au suicide.
R726 / .C355 2002