Giving Death a Helping Hand Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy. An International Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Birnbacher, Dieter (Editor), Dahl, Edgar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 38
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

If it comes to choosing between methods of last resort for severely suffering, physician-assisted suicide will probably prove more acceptable as a method of last resort than active euthanasia both to patients, to legislators and to the general public. From the perspective of patients, physician-assi...

Table of Contents:

• Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy
• Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
• Slippery Slopes and Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Medical Associations
• Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural Change in the Future
• Palliative Options of Last Resort: A Comparison of Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, Terminal Sedation, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Voluntary Active Euthanasia
• Physician-Assisted Suicide – An International Perspective
• Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon
• Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and Belgium
• Physician-Assisted Suicide and the German Criminal Law
• Physician-Assisted Death An Australian Perspective
• Assisted Dying: The View from the United Kingdom
• Physician-Assisted Suicide – Narratives from Professional and Personal Experience
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Doctor’s Perspective
• Physician-Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: A Personal Report
• The European Convention on Human Rights Protects the Right to Suicide.