The euthanasia / assisted-suicide debate
By: Demetra M. Pappas
Series: Historical guides to controversial issues in America
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313341878; 9780313341885
Subjects: Law and legislation; Right to die; Assisted suicide; Euthanasia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Medical euthanasia and assisted suicide : a twentieth-century issue; title: 1930s and 1940s : from the King of England to the Holocaust; title: 1950s : the first Anglo-American prosecutions for medical euthanasia and the resulting academic debate; title: 1960s-1980s : decriminalizing suicide and non-voluntary euthanasia of those in persistent vegetative states; title: 1990s and Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian : from physician-assisted suicide to medical euthanasia; title: 1990s : the non-Michigan parallel text of doctor prosecution and initial failed legislative efforts; title: Legalizing and implementing physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in the 1990s and 2000s; title: 2000s : post-millennium case studies of state reactions to euthanasia and assisted suicide; title: Concluding commentary; title: Appendix : Table of cases, legislation, proposed legislation, and initiatives; title: Glossary