Assisted death in Europe and America
Subtitle: four regimes and their lessons
By: by Guenter Lewy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199746415
Subjects: Assisted suicide -- Europe; Assisted suicide -- Oregon
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Why assisted death has become an important public policy issue; title: The euthanasia and assisted suicide underground; title: The aims of this study; title: Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands; title: The path to legalization; title: The law of 2002 decriminalizing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; title: Empirical data on the practice of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide : who, when, why, where, and how; title: Problems in the practice of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide : failure to report cases of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; title: Ending life without explicit request of the patient; title: Termination of life in pediatric cases; title: Assisted death for patients with mental suffering; title: Can palliative care eliminate the need for assisted death?; title: The dutch regime of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide assessed; title: Voluntary euthanasia in Belgium; title: How Belgium legalized euthanasia; title: The law on euthanasia of May 28, 2002; title: The practice of euthanasia since 2002; title: Assisted suicide in Switzerland; title: Exit German Switzerland Association for a humane death; title: Exit/association pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité/Suisse Romande; title: Dignitas; title: Other right-to-die organizations; title: The public debate on assisted suicide; title: Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon; title: A legal obstacle course; title: The Death With Dignity Act (DWDA); title: Years of physician-assisted death; title: Criticism and problem areas; title: Assisted death as a last resort; title: Lessons from four regimes of assisted death; title: A model statute for physician-assisted suicide; title: Dilemmas and promise of legalized assisted death.