Research Catalog

Title

Prescription--medicide : the goodness of planned death / Jack Kevorkian.

Author

Kevorkian, Jack

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1991.

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Description

268 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

For many years Dr. Kevorkian was at the center of the red-hot debate over physician-assisted suicide. The inventor of the "suicide machine" stirred up both admiration and controversy. His "Deaths with Dignity" won him the accolades of the pro-choice movement. Other groups, like Operation Rescue, the AMA, the Hemlock Society, and especially the Michigan State Legislature, insisted that Kevorkian had gone too far. His much-publicized campaign to assist the terminally ill to commit suicide eventually led to his prosecution and imprisonment. In Prescription: Medicide, the famed "suicide doctor" talks about why he was so committed to his struggle. He addresses the need to assist the terminally ill to die, how death row inmates should be allowed to donate organs after their deaths, and the need for medical reform to create a rational program of dignified, humane, beneficial planned death.

Alternative Title

Medicide

Subject

• Adkins, Janet
• Ethics, Medical
• Euthanasia
• Executions and executioners
• Organ donors
• Right to Die
• Right to die
• Suicide

Genre/Form

Popular Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Retribution on the 13th of July -- What really happened? -- Rebirth of an idea -- Sentenced to what kind of death? -- Execution par excellence -- Bad news from Sacramento -- Voices from death row -- Some "circus trick"! -- The hypocritic oafs -- Nothing new under the sun -- Stone-age ethics for space-age medicine -- The lynching of morality -- Killing in the shadowy valley -- The quality of mercy unstrained -- The birth of medicide -- Prognosis: Medicide: Positive or negative? -- Completing the medical spectrum.

ISBN

0879756772

LCCN

^^^89092751^

OCLC

23690547

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library