Physician-assisted dying : the case for palliative care and patient choice / edited by Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin.

Despite a growing consensus that effective palliative care should be a core element in the treatment of all terminally ill patients, challenging questions remain about the physician's role in helping suffering patients end their lives.

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Other Authors: Quill, Timothy E. (Editor), Battin, M. Pabst (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]
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505 0 0 |t Introduction : false dichotomy versus genuine choice : the argument over physician-assisted dying /  |r Margaret P. Battin and Timothy E. Quill --  |g 1.  |t The quality of mercy /  |r Marcia Angell --  |g 2.  |t Nonabandonment : a central obligation for physicians /  |r Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel --  |g 3.  |t The role of autonomy in choosing physician aid in dying /  |r Thomas Preston, Martin Gunderson and David J. Mayo --  |g 4.  |t Disability and physician-assisted dying /  |r Andrew I. Batavia --  |g 5.  |t When suffering patients seek death /  |r Eric J. Cassell --  |g 6.  |t Why do people seek physician-assisted death? /  |r Robert A. Pearlman and Helene Starks --  |g 7.  |t Doctor-patient communication about physician-assisted suicide /  |r Anthony L. Back --  |g 8.  |t When hastened death is neither killing nor letting die /  |r Tom L. Beauchamp --  |g 9.  |t Physician-assisted suicide as a last-resort option at the end of life /  |r Dan W. Brock --  |g 10.  |t Death : a friend to be welcomed, not an enemy to be defeated /  |r John Shelby Spong --  |g 11.  |t The Oregon experience /  |r Linda Ganzini --  |g 12.  |t The distortion of cases in Oregon /  |r Peter Goodwin --  |g 13.  |t A model that integrates assisted dying with excellent end-of-life care /  |r Barbara Coombs Lee --  |g 14.  |t Thirty years' experience with euthanasia in the Netherlands : focusing on the patient as a person /  |r Johannes J. M. van Delden, Jaap J. F. Visser and Els Borst-Eilers --  |g 15.  |t The death of my father /  |r Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg --  |g 16.  |t Assisted death in the Netherlands : physicians at the bedside when help is requested /  |r Gerrit K. Kimsma and Evert van Leeuwen --  |g 17.  |t Political strategy and legal change /  |r Eli D. Stutsman --  |g 18.  |t Legal advocacy to improve care and expand options at the end of life /  |r Kathryn L. Tucker --  |g 19.  |t Physician-assisted suicide : shifting the focus from means to ends /  |r Alan Meisel --  |g 20.  |t Choice in dying : a political and constitutional context /  |r Sylvia A. Law --  |g 21.  |t Hastening death : the seven deadly sins of the status quo /  |r Charles H. Baron --  |t Conclusion : excellent palliative care as the standard, physician-assisted dying as a last resort /  |r Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin. 
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