The Case against assisted suicide : for the right to end-of-life care / edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foley, Kathleen M., 1944-

Hendin, Herbert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assisted suicide.

Terminal care--United States.

Terminal care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thoughtful and persuasive, this book urges the medical profession to improve palliative care and develop a more humane response to the complex issues facing those who are terminally ill.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective""; ""Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide""; ""Chapter 1 - “I Will Give No Deadly Drug�: Why Doctors Must Not Kill""; ""Chapter 2 - Compassion Is Not Enough""; ""Chapter 3 - Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide""; ""Chapter 4 - The Rise and Fall of the “Right� to Assisted Suicide""; ""Practice versus Theory""; ""Chapter 5 - The Dutch Experience""

""Chapter 6 - Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician""""Chapter 7 - The Oregon Experiment""; ""Chapter 8 - Oregon�s Culture of Silence""; ""Chapter 9 - Deadly Days in Darwin""; ""Reason to Be Concerned""; ""Chapter 10 - Not Dead Yet""; ""Chapter 11 - Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide""; ""Chapter 12 - Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally Ill Patients""; ""A Better Way""; ""Chapter 13 - A Hospice Perspective""

""Chapter 14 - Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide""""Conclusion: Changing the Culture""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7554-4

OCLC:

923190337