Research Catalog

Title

When death is sought : assisted suicide and euthanasia in the medical context.

Author

New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85071236

Publication

New York, N.Y. : New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, [1994]

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Description

xvii, 217 pages : illustrations, forms; 22 cm

Subjects

• Euthanasia
• Right to die > New York (State)
• Right to Die > legislation & jurisprudence
• Suicide, Assisted
• Assisted suicide > Law and legislation > New York (State)
• Euthanasia > Law and legislation > New York (State)
• New York

Note

• "May 1994."
• Crafting public policy on assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The question of legal change -- Response to proposed guidelines to legalize assisted suicide -- Distinguishing decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment -- Developing professional medical standards -- Caring for severely ill patients -- Decisions about life-sustaining treatment -- Improving palliative care -- Diagnosing and treating depression -- Responding when a patient requests assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The epidemiology of suicide -- Suicide in the general population -- Risk factors for suicide -- Suicide and special patient populations -- Patients with cancer -- Patients with AIDS -- The elderly -- Clinical responses to pain and suffering -- Assessing pain and other symptoms -- Managing pain -- Treating other symptoms of illness -- Current clinical practice -- Decisions at life's end: existing law -- The right to decide about treatment -- Suicide and the law -- Assisted suicide -- Euthanasia -- Professional misconduct proceedings -- The Constitutional issues -- The ethical debate -- An historical perspective -- Distinguishing assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The appeal to autonomy -- Benefiting the patient -- Societal consequences -- The role and responsibilities of physicians -- Killing and allowing to die.

ISBN

1881268012

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries