edited by Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers.
New York :
Routledge,
1998.
463 pages ;
24 cm
Reflective bioethics
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Meanings of death / Patricia S. Mann -- Physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and intending death / Frances M. Kamm -- Physician-assisted suicide : safe, legal, rare? / Margaret P. Battin -- Assisted suicide : are the elderly a special case? / Leslie Pickering Francis -- Lessons for physician-assisted suicide from the African-American experience / Patricia A. King and Leslie E. Wolf -- Why suicide is like contraception : a woman-centered view / Dena S. Davis -- Disability and life-ending decisions / Jerome E. Bickenbach -- Protecting the innocents from physician-assisted suicide : disability discrimination and the duty to protect otherwise vulnerable groups / Anita Silvers -- Assisted suicide, terminal illness, severe disability, and the double standard / Felicia Ackerman -- Physicians, assisted suicide, and the right to live or die / Rosamond Rhodes -- Physician, stay thy hand! / Bernard Baumrin -- An alternative to physician-assisted suicide : a conceptual and moral analysis / Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver, and K. Danner Clouser -- Not in the house : arguments for a policy of excluding physician-assisted suicide from the practice of hospital medicine / Michael Teitelman --Physician-assisted suicide : to decriminalize or to legalize, that is the question / Lance K. Stell -- From intention to consent : learning from experience with euthanasia / Helga Kuhse -- The weakness of the case for legalizing physician-assisted suicide / Don Marquis -- Physician-assisted suicide : a tragic view / John D. Arras -- The Supreme Court and terminal sedation : an ethically inferior alternative to physician-assisted suicide / David Orentlicher -- Would physician-assisted suicide save the healthcare system money? : (or, Is Jack Kevorkian doing all of us a favor?) / Merrill Matthews, Jr. -- A Catholic perspective on physician-assisted suicide / John J. Paris and Michael P. Moreland -- Christian perspectives on assisted suicide and euthanasia : the Anglican tradition / Cynthia B. Cohen -- A Protestant perspective on ending life : faithfulness in the face of death / Allen Verhey -- Jewish deliberations on suicide : exceptions, toleration, and assistance / Noam J. Zohar -- Appendix A. Washington et al. v. Glucksberg et al. -- Appendix B. Vacco et al. v. Quill et al. -- Appendix C. The philosophers' brief / Ronald Dworkin [and others] -- Appendix D. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
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Analisa a questão do suicídio assistido através de ensaios de especialistas da área de filosofia, medicina, teologia, ciências sociais, direito e economia.