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...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...

...Janet Heald Forlini; Felicia Cohn; Joanne Lynn Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers, eds. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate . New York:Routledge, 1998. 463 pp. $75.00 cloth; $21.99 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Freeborn, N. In press...

...Karolynn Siegel; Peter Tuckel The contemporary approach to suicide prevention relies primarily on involuntary commitment of the suicidal individual. While there is generally widespread acceptance of the principle of society's right, even its moral obligation, to intervene to prevent a suicide...

...) or physician-assisted suicide(PAS) legislation. In-depth, qualitative interviews with forty-five physically disabled residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, conducted by others with disabilities, revealed a wide breadth of opinions about and attitudes toward such legislation. For close to half...

...Nancy S. Jecker Derek Humphry. Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying . Eugene, OR: The Hemlock Society, 1991. 192 pp. $16.95 cloth. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Jecker , N. S. 1991 . Giving Death...

...Timothy Callaghan; Alva O. Ferdinand; Matt Motta; Alee Lockman; Aakriti Shrestha; Kristin Lunz Trujillo Abstract Context: To address the considerable burden of mental health need in the United States, Congress passed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act in 2020. The act rebranded...

... process, (c) implications of competing interpretive frames (i.e.,volunteering vs. suicide), and (d) the rationality of decisions to waive appeals. Implications of research findings, particularly in terms of recent restructured models of competence, are also discussed. © 2004 by Duke University Press...

...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 Battin, Margaret P. 1982 . Ethical Issues in Suicide...

... 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 the Stoics) have we enter- tained the notion that an individual can be the master of his or her life, and perhaps...

... 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 suicide (PAS) have become increasingly...

... 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...

... 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 suicide (PAS) have become increasingly divisive...

... suicide (PAS) have become increasingly divisive in recent years, and for good reason. For one thing, only in modernity (at least since the Stoics) have we enter- tained the notion that an individual can be the master of his or her life, and perhaps only the past...

... of philosophical issues in suicide; a scholarly edition of John Donne’s Biathanatos; a collection on age rationing of medical care; Puzzles About Art, a volume of case puzzles in aesthetics; a text on professional ethics; and Ethics in the Sanctuary, a study of ethical issues...

..., and psycho- logical pressures that surround choices about withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthana- sia. Burt’s first major writing on these subjects, Taking Care of Strangers: The Rule of Law in Doctor-Patient Relations, was published in 1979...

... role for law and social policy amid the tangle of medical judgments, human relationships, and psycho- logical pressures that surround choices about withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthana- sia. Burt’s first major writing on these subjects...

... about withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthana- sia. Burt’s first major writing on these subjects, Taking Care of Strangers: The Rule of Law in Doctor-Patient Relations, was published in 1979 when, after centuries of physician dominance...

...- Reviews 823 ample, once considered ordinary care, are now thought to be a medical procedure. On the issue of physician-assisted suicide, there is substantial disagreement, even among experts, on the nature and extent of the prob- lem that allegedly creates the need. Is there truly a category...

... is an intellectual, as well as political, minefield. University 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...

...: 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...