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