| 书目名称 | Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues? | | 副标题 | What are the Issues? | | 编辑 | Loretta M. Kopelman,Kenneth A. Ville | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?. offers adetailed discussion of recent supreme court rulings that have had animpact on the contemporary debate in the United States and elsewhereover physician-assisted suicide. Two rulings by the U.S. Supreme Courthave altered the contemporary debate on physician-assisted suicide:Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Vacco v. Quill (1997). In thesecases, the Supreme Court ruled that state laws could prohibit assistedsuicide and, therefore, physician-assisted suicide. These rulings markthe apex of over two decades of unprecedented litigation regardingend-of-life care and signal the beginning of a new clinical, ethical,and legal debate over the extent of an individual‘s rights to controlthe timing, manner, and means of his/her death. .The debate over suicide and assisting suicide is ancient andcontentious and intertwined with questions about the permissibility ofvoluntary active euthanasia or mercy killing. Responses to theseissues can be divided into those who defend physician-assisted suicideand many of these other activities and those who object. But those whoobject may do so on principled grounds in that they regard theseactivities | | 出版日期 | Book 20011st edition | | 关键词 | death; health; morality | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9631-7 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4020-0365-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-010-9631-7 | | copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 |
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