Physician Assisted Suicide
Subtitle: Expanding the Debate (Reflective Bioethics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 10, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415920025
First sentence: ONE WEEK BEFORE THE END OF ITS SPRING TERM, on June 26, 1997, the United States Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases that claimed constitutional protection for physician-assisted suicide, Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, by a single 9-0 vote covering both cases.