Birnbacher, Dieter
Giving Death a Helping Hand
Part I. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy
1. Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
Gerald Dworkin
2. Slippery Slopes and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Neil Levy
3. Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Medical Associations
Dieter Birnbacher
4. Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural Change in the Future
Margaret Pabst Battin
5. Palliative Options of Last Resort: A Comparison of Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, Terminal Sedation, Physician-Assisted Suicide, and Voluntary Active Euthanasia
Timothy E. Quill, Bernard Lo, Dan W. Brock
Part II. Physician-Assisted Suicide – An International Perspective
6. Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon
Linda Ganzini, Edgar Dahl
7. Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and Belgium
John Griffiths
8. Physician-Assisted Suicide and the German Criminal Law
Gabriele Wolfslast
9. Physician-Assisted Death An Australian Perspective
Alan Rothschild
10. Assisted Dying: The View from the United Kingdom
Sheila A.M. McLean
Part III. Physician-Assisted Suicide – Narratives from Professional and Personal Experience
11. Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Doctor’s Perspective
Pieter Admiraal
12. Physician-Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: A Personal Report
Elke M. Baezner-Sailer
13. The European Convention on Human Rights Protects the Right to Suicide
Ludwig A. Minelli
DRM-restrictions
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Keywords: MEDICAL / Public Health MED078000
- Author(s)
- Birnbacher, Dieter
- Dahl, Edgar
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402064968