The case against assisted suicide : for the right to end-of-life care / edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin.
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a medical, ethical, legal, and psychosocial perspective / Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin 1
- Part I. Autonomy, compassion, and rational suicide
- "I will give no deadly drug" : why doctors must not kill / Leon R. Kass 17
- Compassion is not enough / Edmund D. Pellegrino 41
- Reason, self-determination, and physician-assisted suicide / Daniel Callahan 52
- The rise and fall of the "right" to assisted suicide / Yale Kamisar 69 Part II. Practice versus theory
- The Dutch experience / Herbert Hendin 97
- Palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands : observations of a Dutch physician / Zbigniew Zylicz 122
- The Oregon experiment / Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin 144
- Oregon's culture of silence / N. Gregory Hamilton 175
- Deadly days in Darwin / David W. Kissane 192
- Not dead yet / Diane Coleman 213
- Vulnerable people : practical rejoinders to claims in favor of assisted suicide / Felicia Cohn and Joanne Lynn 238
- Depression and the will to live in the psychological landscape of terminally ill patients / Harvey M. Chochinov and Leonard Schwartz 261
- Part III. A better way
- A hospice perspective / Cicely Saunders 281
- Compassionate care, not assisted suicide / Kathleen Foley 293
- Conclusion : changing the culture / Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin 311.