Research Catalog

Title

Euthanasia : the good of the patient, the good of society / [edited by] Robert I. Misbin.

Publication

Frederick, Md. : University Pub. Group, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Misbin, Robert I.

Description

x, 223 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Kevorkian, Jack
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Initiative 119
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
• Right to die > Law and legislation
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
• Right to die > Law and legislation > United States
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects > Netherlands
• Right to die > Law and legislation > Netherlands
• Euthanasia
• Medical ethics
• Right to die
• Euthanasia
• Ethics, Medical
• Public Policy
• Right to Die
• Right to die
• Medical ethics
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
• Right to die > Law and legislation
• Euthanasie
• Netherlands
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Physician responsibility for euthanasia / Peter Angelos -- Doctors must not kill / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- The quality of mercy : examination of the proposition "doctors must not kill" / Frederick R. Abrams -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands : brief historical review and present situation / Else Borst-Eilers -- What the law allows : legal aspects of euthanasia on request in the Netherlands / J.K.M. Gevers -- A physician's responsibility to help a patient die / Pieter V. Admiraal -- Active euthanasia : is mercy killing the killing of mercy? / D.J. Bakker -- Should we copy the Dutch? : the Netherland's practice of voluntary euthanasia as a model for the United States / Margaret Pabst Battin -- Impact of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law on clinical practice in a cancer research institution / The Ethics Group of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
• Should a terminally ill patient have the right to demand resuscitation? / Howard Brody -- Preserving the professional ethics : physicians are not obligated to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Nanette B. Hoffman -- The hidden issue in futility judgments : justifying turning the traditional logic of beneficence on its head / Laurence B. McCullough -- From "natural death" to "aid in dying" : reflections on the American judicial experience / Edward R. Grant and Clarke D. Forsythe -- Sovereignty, stewardship, and the self : religious perspectives on euthanasia / Courtney S. Campbell -- The historical and religious framework for euthanasia in the Netherlands / Titia H.C. Bueller -- Physician-assisted suicide and the suicide machine / Ronald F. White -- Federal policy regarding end-of-life decisions / Mitchell M. Handelsman.

ISBN

• 155572017X
• 9781555720179

LCCN

93244047

OCLC

• ocm27455582
• 27455582
• SCSB-1997088

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library