Physician-assisted dying : the case for palliative care and patient choice /

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Other Authors: Quill, Timothy E, Battin, M. Pabst
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004
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245 0 0 |a Physician-assisted dying :  |b the case for palliative care and patient choice /  |c edited by Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin 
260 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Johns Hopkins University Press,  |c c2004 
300 |a xv, 342 p. ;  |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a The quality of mercy / Marcia Angell -- Nonabandonment: a central obligation for physicians / Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel -- The role of autonomy in choosing physician aid-in-dying / Thomas Preston, Martin Gunderson, and David J. Mayo -- Disability and physician-assisted dying / Andrew I. Batavia -- When suffering patients seek death / Eric J. Cassell -- Why do people seek physician-assisted death? / Robert A. Pearlman and Helene Starks -- Doctor/patient communication about physician-assisted suicide / Anthony L. Back -- When hastened death is neither killing nor letting-die / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Should physician-assisted suicide be added to the options of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking and terminal sedation at the end of life? / Dan W. Brock -- Death: a friend to be welcomed, not an enemy to be defeated / John Shelby Spong -- The Oregon experience / Linda Ganzini -- The distortion of cases in oregon / Peter Goodwin -- A model that integrates assisted dying with excellent end-of-life care / Barbara Coombs-Lee -- Thirty years of experience with euthanasia in the Netherlands: focusing on the patient as a person / Johannes J.M. van Delden, Jaap J.F. Visser, and Els Borst-Eilers -- The death of my father / Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg -- Assisted death in the Netherlands: physicians at the bedside when help is requested / Gerrit K. Kimsma and Evert van Leeuwen -- Political strategy and legal change / Eli D. Stutsman -- Legal advocacy to improve care and expand options at the end of life / Kathryn L. Tucker -- Physician-assisted suicide: shifting the focus from means to ends / Alan Meisel -- Choice in dying: a political and constitutional context / Sylvia A. Law -- Hastening death: the seven deadly sins of the status quo / Charles H. Baron -- Conclusion: excellent palliative care as the standard, and physician-assisted dying as a last resort / Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin 
650 0 |a Assisted suicide 
650 0 |a Right to die 
650 0 |a Palliative treatment 
650 0 |a Terminal care  |x Moral and ethical aspects 
650 0 |a Patient satisfaction 
650 1 2 |a Suicide, Assisted 
650 2 2 |a Euthanasia 
650 2 2 |a Palliative Care 
650 2 2 |a Right to Die 
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700 1 |a Battin, M. Pabst 
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