Physician-assisted dying
Subtitle: the case for palliative care and patient choice
By: edited by Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin.
Contributors: Quill, Timothy E.; Battin, M. Pabst.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Assisted suicide; Right to die; Palliative treatment; Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects; Patient satisfaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The quality of mercy / Marcia Angell; title: Nonabandonment: a central obligation for physicians / Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel; title: The role of autonomy in choosing physician aid-in-dying / Thomas Preston, Martin Gunderson, and David J. Mayo; title: Disability and physician-assisted dying / Andrew I. Batavia; title: When suffering patients seek death / Eric J. Cassell; title: Why do people seek physician-assisted death? / Robert A. Pearlman and Helene Starks; title: Doctor/patient communication about physician-assisted suicide / Anthony L. Back; title: When hastened death is neither killing nor letting-die / Tom L. Beauchamp; title: Should physician-assisted suicide be added to the options of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking and terminal sedation at the end of life? / Dan W. Brock; title: Death: a friend to be welcomed, not an enemy to be defeated / John Shelby Spong; title: The Oregon experience / Linda Ganzini; title: The distortion of cases in oregon / Peter Goodwin; title: A model that integrates assisted dying with excellent end-of-life care / Barbara Coombs-Lee; title: 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; title: The death of my father / Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg; title: Assisted death in the Netherlands: physicians at the bedside when help is requested / Gerrit K. Kimsma and Evert van Leeuwen; title: Political strategy and legal change / Eli D. Stutsman; title: Legal advocacy to improve care and expand options at the end of life / Kathryn L. Tucker; title: Physician-assisted suicide: shifting the focus from means to ends / Alan Meisel; title: Choice in dying: a political and constitutional context / Sylvia A. Law; title: Hastening death: the seven deadly sins of the status quo / Charles H. Baron; title: Conclusion: excellent palliative care as the standard, and physician-assisted dying as a last resort / Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin.