...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...

...David Orentlicher John Griffiths, Alex Bood, and Heleen Weyers. Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. 382 pp.$44.50 cloth. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377...

...Margaret P. Battin Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey, and Sissela Bok. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: For and Against. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 151 pp. $14.95 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377...

... represented or been closely involved with would-be volunteers. Through analytic comparison with another end-of-life decision, euthanasia, this article reports on four themes from the interviews: (a) attorneys' perceptions of the legal standard of competence, (b) their perceptions of the competency evaluation...

...Andrew E. Slaby; Laurence R. Tancredi This paper attempts to determine the extent to which the growing acceptance of deviant behaviors (sexual, sumptuary, and regarding abortion and euthanasia) is related to economic considerations and to draw out some of the attendant implications for health...

.... Wanzer. 1996 . Statute: A Model State Act to Authorize and Regulate Physician-Assisted Suicide. Harvard Journal of Legislation 33 (1): 1 -34. Billings, J. A., and S. D. Block. 1996 . Slow Euthanasia. Journal of Palliative Care 12 (4): 21 -30. Byock, I. R. 1993 . Consciously Walking the Fine...

.../28/00 4:05 PM Page 377 Book Review Editor’s Introduction David M. Frankford The issues presented by euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) have become increasingly divisive in recent years...

...David M. Frankford © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377 Book Review Editor’s Introduction David M. Frankford The issues presented by euthanasia...

... Introduction David M. Frankford The issues presented by euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) have become increasingly divisive in recent years, and for good reason. For one thing, only in modernity (at least since...

... © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.2-04 Book Review 3/28/00 4:05 PM Page 377 Book Review Editor’s Introduction David M. Frankford The issues presented by euthanasia and physician-assisted...

... the Poor of Care. New York Times , 12 March, p. B6 . Quill , T. 1991 . Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making. New England Journal of Medicine 324 : 691 -94. Vander Maas , P. J. , J. J. M. van Delden, L. Pijnenborg, and C.W.N. Looman. 1991 . Euthanasia and Other...

... the idea and practice of euthanasia. Physicians often refuse to use “euthanasia,” a term many find abhorrent, in the passive context (i.e., the deliberate omission of therapies that would probably extend life), and prefer to speak of “the patient’s right to die.”52 But euphemisms aside, physician...

... Long before the sophisticated contemporary interventions that prolong life were invented, there was an active movement supporting euthanasia, “the deliberate easing into death of a patient suffering from a painful and fatal disease Voluntary euthanasia means termination of a person’s life...

... 1986 by Duke University. 215 216 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law which varied with the hospital and the parents and doctors involved, that led to passive euthanasia of defective newborns. In most instances hospitals had...

... of Bath Rudolf Klein Samuel E. Wallace and Albin Eser, eds., Suicide and Euthanasia: The Rights of Personhood (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981). 150 pp. Any book with the jolly title Suicide and Euthanasia has little more than a running...

...: Univer- sity Publishing Group, 1998. 246 pp. $19.95 paper. Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands. John Griffiths, Alex Bood, and Heleen Wey- ers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998. 382 pp. $42.50 cloth. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey, and Sissela Bok...

... religion. A collection of her essays on end-of-life issues written over the last fifteen years is entitled The Least Worst Death. Having been engaged in research on active euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands, she has also recently published Ethical...

...: How safe is safe enough? Edited by Richard C. Schwing and Walter A. Albers, Jr. 363 pp. New York: Plenum Press, 1980 Ethical Issues Ethical Decisions in Medicine, 2nd Edition. By Howard Brody, M.D. 421 pp. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. $15.95 Suicide and Euthanasia...

... information from patients about their con- dition or make treatment decisions based on their own best judgment; and decisions about whether to permit euthanasia or suicide. The importance of clarifying one’s own thinking about the question of paternalism makes a serious treatment of the topic a high...

.... Fried , T. R. , M. D. Stein, P. S. O’Sullivan, D. W. Brock, and D. H. Novack. 1993 . Limits of Patient Autonomy: Physician Attitudes and Practices Regarding Life-Sustaining Treatments and Euthanasia. Archives of Internal Medicine 153 : 722 -728. Jecker , N. S. , and L. Emanuel. 1995...