Research Catalog

Title

Drug use in assisted suicide and euthanasia / Margaret P. Battin, Arthur G. Lipman, editors.

Publication

New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Battin, M. Pabst.
• Lipman, Arthur B.

Description

xvi, 360 pages; 22 cm

Subjects

• Drugs > Prescribing > Moral and ethical aspects
• Suicide, Assisted
• Ethics, Pharmacy
• Euthanasia > Law and legislation
• Assisted suicide > Law and legislation
• Pharmacists > Professional ethics
• Drug Utilization
• Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects
• United States
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: The Need to Objectively Examine Issues in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / Margaret P. Battin and Arthur G. Lipman -- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Arguments For and Against Practice, Legalization and Participation / Ronald Baker Miller -- Issues for Pharmacists in Assisted Patient Death / Michael T. Rupp -- Nursing Perspectives on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / Betty R. Ferrell and Lynne M. Rivera -- Suffering and the Dying Patient / C. Richard Chapman and Jonathan Gavrin -- End of Life Issues in Patients with AIDS: Clinical and Research Considerations / Steven D. Passik, Margaret V. McDonald, Barry D. Rosenfeld and William S. Breitbart -- A View of Current Law on Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life / Robert T. Angarola and Gail P. Middlekauff -- Is Physician Aid-in-Dying a Constitutional Right? / Kathryn L. Tucker -- Current Law on Physician-Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill / Cheryl K. Smith --
• Pharmacists' Response to Oregon's Death with Dignity Act / Kristine Carlson Marcus -- Regulatory Issues in Euthanasia, Palliative Care and Assisted Suicide / William L. Marcus -- Lethal Drugs for Assisted Suicide: How the Public Sees It / Derek Humphry -- Observations Concerning Terminally Ill Patients Who Choose Suicide / Thomas A. Preston and Ralph Mero -- Euthanasia and Euthanizing Drugs in the Netherlands / Gerrit K. Kimsma -- Toxicological Issues with Drugs Used to End Life / Barbara Insley Crouch -- When Drugs Fail: Assisted Deaths and Not-So-Lethal Drugs / Stephen Jamison -- Position Statements on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide / Edited by Arthur G. Lipman -- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Cases and Commentaries / Edited by Sharon M. Valente and Judith M. Saunders.

ISBN

1560248149

LCCN

95049632

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries