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Confronting Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father's Death

Authors: Wolf, Susan M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of dealing with the issue on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia during the period before her father's death....
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:42

Ignore the Law

Authors: Scofield, Giles ; Wasserman, Lloyd ; Dwyer, James
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents views on the termination of the life-sustaining treatment. Factors to consider in the termination of the life-support system; Information on the law that governs the termination decision; Ethical issues raised in relation t...
Year: 2000

Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:09

But is it assisted suicide?

Authors: Viederman, Milton ; Fins, Joseph J. ; Nelson, James Lindemann
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a case study and commentaries dealing with assisted suicide. Suicide attempt by an eighty-year-old woman; Question about the removal of the victim's ventilator; Removal of ventilator as symbolic completion of suicide; Conce...
Year: 1995

Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:05

Letting her go

Authors: Bowles, Alvin L. Sr. ; Olsen, Ellen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents a hypothetical case study in which the medical team of a patient needing a feeding tube, at the request of the patient's husband, allows the patient to go unfed. Question of what can be done when the views of primary care p...
Year: 1992

Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:02

What happens now? Oregon and Physician-Assisted Suicide

Authors: Woolfrey, Joan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the challenges experienced by health care professionals in Oregon, regarding the legal sanctioning of assisted suicide and the plans for the implementation of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Factors which influenced the ...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:08

The Remmelink study

Authors: van Delden, Johannes J. M. ; Pijnenborg, Loes
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the Remmelink Committee and its impact on the end-of-life legislation. Investigation of medical decisions concerning the end of life by physicians by the Remmelink Committee; Broadening of the debate about physician aid-i...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:02

Should psychiatrists serve as gatekeepers for physician-assisted suicide?

Authors: Sullivan, Mark D. ; Ganzini, Linda
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on mandatory psychiatric evaluation for patients who request physician-assisted suicide. Information on the relationship between mental illness and decisionmaking capacity in dying patients; Insight into casting psychiatrist...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:58

The Constitution and hastening inevitable death

Authors: Sedler, Robert A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the controversy over the legitimacy and legality of assisted suicide in Michigan. Due process clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment protecting the right of terminally ill persons to hasten their inevitable deat...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:52

Autonomy and assisted suicide: The execution of freedom

Authors: Safranek, John P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the descriptive and ascriptive aspects of autonomy and whether either one can give the right to assisted suicide or limit that right. Definition of autonomy; Information on the descriptive sense of autonomy; Criticism of ...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:47

Debating euthanasia in Belgium

Authors: Schotsman, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the disputes on approving the practice of euthanasia in Belgium. Options on the issue recommended by the deliberations committee; Legal basis of the practice....
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:51

Hard cases

Authors: Schneider, Carl E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on murder case which was trial against Robert Latimer for killing his daughter who's brain was terribly damaged by lack of oxygen and severe cerebral palsy. Background information on Robert Latimer; How Latimer's killed his ...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:49

Hard Cases and the Politics of Righteousness

Authors: Schneider, Carl E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the ramifications of hard medical cases and the politics of righteousness in the bioethics dispute arising from the termination of treatment of Terri Schiavo who suffered from persistent vegetative state. Problems associat...
Year: 2005

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:50

In Britain fewer conflicts of conscience

Authors: Saunders, Dame Cicely
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide in relation to hospice and palliative care in Great Britain. Stand of hospice associations to reject changes in the law; Rare requests for suicide assistance; Balancing role o...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:48

Physician-Assisted Suicide : Promoting Autonomy or Medicalizing Suicide?

Authors: Salem, Tania
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Argues that physician-assisted suicide does not demedicalize death. Assumptions in the debate over aid in dying; Information on physician-assisted suicide; Assertion that it is in fact a medical judgment; Implication on the physicia...
Year: 1999

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:48

Retiring the pacemaker

Authors: Reitemeier, Paul J. ; Derse, Arthur R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents commentaries on a case study concerning a request made by the wife of a 74-year-old Alzheimer patient for the discontinuation of her husband's cardiac pacemaker. Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order and instructions prohibiting p...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:41

Why Gender Matters to the Euthanasia Debate

Authors: Parks, Jennifer A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the ways gender roles and social circumstances affect the patients' request for euthanasia. Views of feminist Susan Wolf; Implication of physicians' acceptance of voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide;...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:37

Profoundly diminished life : The Casualties of Coercion

Authors: Morreim, E. Haavi
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the debate on whether physicians can refuse, unilaterally, to provide life support for patients who are hopelessly or terminally ill. Coercion and threat of coercion arising from an irresolvable value conflict; Suggestion...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:30

Physician-assisted suicide and the profession's gyrocompass

Authors: Miles, Steven H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Assesses the claim that physician-assisted suicide is compatible with physicians' professional integrity. Professional ethic as a gyrocompass; Four different ways of relating professional ethic to public permission for physician-ass...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:26

Vitalism Revitalized : Vulnerable Populations, Prejudice, and Physician-Assisted Death

Authors: Mayo, David J. ; Gunderson, Martin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the issue of physician-assisted death (PAD). Reason some bioethicists have opposed PAD; Vulnerability-related arguments against PAD; Demise of medical vitalism; Reason there are many within the disability community advocat...
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:22

End-of-life care after termination of support

Authors: Lo, Bernard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Reports on end-of-life care in the United States, after the termination of the Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences of Outcomes and Risks of Treatment (SUPPORT). Aims of SUPPORT; High-technology interventions for patients w...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:17

Intimations of solidarity? The popular culture responds to assisted suicide

Authors: Kleinman, Arthur
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the popular responses to the issue of assisted suicide in the United States triggered by the Supreme Court's decisions in the cases `Washington v. Glucksberg' and `Vacco v. Quill.' Factors influencing public moral questi...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:10

Assisted suicide, the Supreme Court, and the constitutive function of the law

Authors: Kaverny, M. Cathleen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the applicability of constitutive legal guidelines for assisted suicide cases in the United States cited in the Supreme Court cases, `Washington v. Glucksberg' and `Vacco v. Quill.' Legal theorists' explanation of the in...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:08

On regulating death

Authors: Keown, John
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Examines the book `Regulating Death: Euthanasia and the Case of the Netherlands,' by Carlos F. Gomez and attempts to determine the extent to which it provides an accurate assessment of the situation in the Netherlands. Book presents...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:09

The Contribution of Demoralization to End of Life Decisionmaking

Authors: Kissane, David W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Explores demoralization as a dimensional state of mind and the impact of demoralization upon a capacity of a person to give informed consent across a range of end-of-life decisions. Definitions of demoralization; Characteristics and...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:10

Are laws against assisted suicide unconstitutional?

Authors: Kamisar, Yale
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Recommends the crimilalization of assisted suicide. The case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the Michigan legislature action; Question of `right' to commit suicide; Question of whether `right to die' includes right to assisted suicide; Di...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:07