... . At Least We’re Still Free to Choose to Die at Home: A CLASS Act David M. Frankford Rutgers University A particularly contentious part of the Patient...

...Stephan L. Burton David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma, and Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci, eds. Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1998. 604 pp. $198.00 cloth; $49.00 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000...

...Ezekiel J. Emanuel Charles F. McKhann. A Time to Die: The Place for Physician Assistance . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 268 pp.$31.00. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377 Book Review Editor’s...

...Timothy E. Quill Linda L. Emanuel, ed. Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical,and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide. Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1998. 304 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 American Medical Association...

...Kenneth R. Wing Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reportfiom the Field The Supreme Court’s Spring Term: Abortion, the Right to Die, and the Decline of Privacy Rights Kenneth R. Wing, University of Puget Sound and University...

...John M. Strate References Elder , Charles D. , and Roger W. Cobb. 1983 . The Political Use of Symbols. New York: Longman. Glick , Henry R. 1992 . The Right to Die: Policy Innovation and Its Consequences. New York: Columbia University Press. Rochefort , David...

... on hospice care. An increasingly high proportion of beneficiaries receive hospice care. However, over 30 percent are served fewer than seven days before they die, while very long stays are also increasingly common. These and other factors raise quality concerns about hospice being disconnected from the rest...

...Erika Blacksher; Elizabeth Rigby; Claire Espey The fact that disadvantaged people generally die younger and suffer more disease than those with more resources is gaining ground as a major policy concern in the United States. Yet we know little about how public values inform public opinion about...

... and Medicaid came the rhetoric of universal access and the “right to health care.” At the same time the field of bioethics was emerging and contributing ideas about other kinds of rights, such as the right to die with dignity. Physicians during this time did not see their role as that of gatekeeper, but rather...

... Medicare as a health insurance subsidy, particularly those who are older and sicker and who use Medicare services more heavily. These persons are caught between well-intentioned federal cost-cutting efforts and die often confusing panoply of health insurance programs for the aged, and they will bear...

... benefit. Reducing inefficiency is essential but difficult. The universal challenge is to decide who shall live when all will die in a world of scarce resources. Copyright © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Who will live when all must die? Benjamin Franklin argued that there are two certainties...

...Rogan Kersh; James A. Morone Health care politics are changing. They increasingly focus not on avowedly public projects (such as building the health care infrastructure) but on regulating private behavior. Examples include tobacco, obesity, abortion, drug abuse, the right to die, and even...

..., ed. Giorgi Freddi and J. W. Bjorkman. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. Altenstetter , C. 1986d . Der Bayern-Vertrag aus der Sicht der Public Policy- und Implementa-tionsforschung (unpublished manuscript). Baumgarten , J. 1986 . Zum Verhaltnis Krankenkasse-Krankenhauser. Die...

... and Javed—Every Patient’s Situation Is Unique. 1976 . American Medical News, 19 July, pp. 11 -13. Englefinger , F. J. 1975 . The Edelin Trial Fiasco. New England Journal of Medicine 292 : 697 . Father Petitions Court to Let Daughter Die. 1975 . Los Angeles Times, 17 September, p. 19...

..., for better or for worse. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Ab 1999 fließen 1.2 Milliarden DM in die neuen Bundesländer. 1997 . Ärzte Zeitung, 11 November, p. 7. Abel-Smith , B. 1988 . The Rise and Decline of Early HMOs: Some International Experiences. Milbank...

... and attraction. Such a development would ease the reconstruction of the social security system by privatizing parts of currently public expenditures and reducing the scope of interpersonal redistribution. References Alber , J. , and A. Ryll. 1990 . Die Krankenversicherung in BewuBtsein der Bevolke-rung...

..., and a problematic afterlife. All this because, as Joe Louis once observed, “Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die Or as the belligerently eloquent Dylan Thomas expressed it in a famous poem to his dying father: “Do not go gentle into that good night./Rage, rage against the dying...

... of life humanely. At the same time, however, Humphry presents plenty of reasons why physicians should assist a suffering ter- minally ill patient to die. Physicians know better when death will occur. They have lawful access to lethal drugs, know the techniques for their ad- ministration...