Physician-assisted dying : the case for palliative care and patient choice /
Quill, Timothy E.
Battin, M. Pabst.
Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The quality of mercy / Marcia Angell -- Nonabandonment: a central obligation for physicians / Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel -- The role of autonomy in choosing physician aid in dying / Thomas Preston, Martin Gunderson, and David J. Mayo -- Disability and physician-assisted dying / Andrew I. Batavia -- When suffering patients seek death / Eric J. Cassell -- Why do people seek physician-assisted death? / Robert A. Pearlman and Helene Starks -- Doctor-patient communication about physician-assisted suicide / Anthony L. Back -- When hastened death is neither killing nor letting-die / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Physician-assisted suicide as a last-resort option at the end of life / Dan W. Brock -- Death: a friend to be welcomed, not an enemy to be defeated / John Shelby Spong -- The Oregon experience / Linda Ganzini -- The distortion of cases in oregon / Peter Goodwin -- A model that integrates assisted dying with excellent end-of-life care / Barbara Coombs-Lee -- Thirty years' of experience with euthanasia in the Netherlands: focusing on the patient as a person / Johannes J.M. van Delden, Jaap J.F. Visser, and Els Borst-Eilers -- The death of my father / Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg -- Assisted death in the Netherlands: physicians at the bedside when help is requested / Gerrit K. Kimsma and Evert van Leeuwen -- Political strategy and legal change / Eli D. Stutsman -- Legal advocacy to improve care and expand options at the end of life / Kathryn L. Tucker -- Physician-assisted suicide: shifting the focus from means to ends / Alan Meisel -- Choice in dying: a political and constitutional context / Sylvia A. Law -- Hastening death: the seven deadly sins of the status quo / Charles H. Baron -- Conclusion: excellent palliative care as the standard, and physician-assisted dying as a last resort / Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin.
Assisted suicide.
Right to die.
Palliative treatment.
Terminal care
Patient satisfaction.