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The case against assisted suicide : for the right to end-of-life care /
"Few issues are as volatile or misunderstood as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Drs. Foley and Hendin unravel why such principles as patient autonomy, compassion, and rationality, which are often invoked by supp...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "I will give no deadly drug": why doctors must not kill / Leon R. Kass
- Compassion is not enough / Edmund D. Pellegrino
- Reason, self-determination, and physician-assisted suicide / Daniel Callahan
- The rise and fall of the "right" to assisted suicide / Yale Kamisar
- The Dutch experience / Herbert Hendin
- Palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands: observations of a Dutch physician / Zbigniew Zylicz
- The Oregon experiment / Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin
- Oregon's culture of silence / N. Gregory Hamilton
- Deadly days in Darwin / David W. Kissane
- Not dead yet / Diane Coleman
- Vulnerable people: practical rejoinders to claims in favor of assisted suicide / Felicia Cohn and Joanne Lynn
- Depression and the will to live in the psychological landscape of terminally ill patients / Harvey M. Chochinov and Leonard Schwartz
- A hospice perspective / Cicely Saunders
- Compassionate care, not assisted suicide / Kathleen Foley.