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Assisted death in Europe and America : four regimes and their lessons / Guenter Lewy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewy, Guenter, 1923- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Assisted suicide--Europe.
- Assisted suicide.
- Assisted suicide--Oregon.
- Suicide, Assisted.
- Europe.
- Oregon.
- Medical Subjects:
- Suicide, Assisted.
- Europe.
- Oregon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)
- Other Title:
- Four regimes and their lessons
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Advances in medical treatment now enable physicians to prolong life to a previously unknown extent. Based on the documentary record and interviews with officials, this book gives the reader a reliable picture of the way assisted death functions and to draw relevant lessons.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Why assisted death has become an important public policy issue
- The euthanasia and assisted suicide underground
- The aims of this study
- Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands
- The path to legalization
- The law of 2002 decriminalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- Empirical data on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide : who, when, why, where, and how
- Problems in the practice of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide : failure to report cases of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- Ending life without explicit request of the patient
- Termination of life in pediatric cases
- Assisted death for patients with mental suffering
- Can palliative care eliminate the need for assisted death?
- The Dutch regime of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide assessed
- Voluntary euthanasia in Belgium
- How Belgium legalized euthanasia
- The law on euthanasia of May 28, 2002
- The practice of euthanasia since 2002
- Assisted suicide in Switzerland
- Exit German Switzerland Association for a humane death
- Exit/association pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité/Suisse Romande
- Dignitas
- Other right-to-die organizations
- The public debate on assisted suicide
- Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon
- A legal obstacle course
- The Death With Dignity Act (DWDA)
- Years of physician-assisted death
- Criticism and problem areas
- Assisted death as a last resort
- Lessons from four regimes of assisted death
- A model statute for physician-assisted suicide
- Dilemmas and promise of legalized assisted death.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Jan. 12, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045401-6
- 1-282-77602-9
- 9786612776021
- 0-19-978035-8
- OCLC:
- 669501258
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