Research Catalog

Title

Physician-Assisted Death : Scanning the Landscape : proceedings of a workshop / Rebecca A. English, Catharyn T. Liverman, Caroline M. Cilio, and Joe Alper, rapporteurs ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape and Potential Approaches (Workshop) (2018 : Washington, D.C.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

• Washington, DC : the National Academies Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• English, Rebecca A.
• Alper, Joe
• Cilio, Caroline M.
• Liverman, Catharyn T.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Health and Medicine Division, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Description

xiii, 164 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm

Summary

"The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients. While public opinion is divided and public policy debates include moral, ethical, and policy considerations, a demand for physician-assisted death persists among some patients, and the inconsistent legal terrain leaves a number of questions and challenges for health care providers to navigate when presented with patients considering or requesting physician-assisted death. To discuss what is known and not known empirically about the practice of physician-assisted death, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC, on February 12-13, 2018. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Assisted suicide
• Assisted suicide > Congresses
• Physicians > psychology
• Health Policy
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary
• Euthanasia > Congresses
• Suicide, Assisted
• Attitude to Death
• Terminally Ill > psychology
• Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Conceptual, legal, and ethical considerations in physician-assisted death -- Experiences with and reflections on physician-assisted death in the United States -- Experiences with and reflections on physician-assisted death internationally -- Implementation and practice of physician-assisted death -- Physician-assisted death in the context of long-term services and supports, palliative care, and hospice -- Reflections on the workshop and evidentiary gaps.

ISBN

• 9780309476959
• 030947695X

OCLC

• on1044556201
• 1044556201
• SCSB-9153613

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries