Physician-assisted suicide
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書誌事項
Physician-assisted suicide
（Medical ethics series / David H. Smith and Robert M. Veatch, Editors）
Indiana University Press, c1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
oI will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.O The Hippocratic Oath, written in Greece sometime during the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E., represented an effort by a small group of physicians to build public trust and to distance themselves from others who would sometimes assist seriously ill persons to commit suicide by supplying poison. Once again physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has become a major ethical issue in medicine. As the exploits of Jack Kevorkian, M.D., are played out in the media and in the courts, physician-assisted suicide has become the focus of intense public and professional debate. The essays in this book are intended to shed light and perspective on the issue of PAS. The authors were selected not only because of their experience and scholarship, but also because they provide readers with differing points of view on a complex subject. Writing from professional backgrounds in history, medicine, philosophy, religion, and law, the authors provide us with essays characterized by careful analysis, experienced insight, solid scholarship, and strong, sometimes passionate arguments.
Part I contains two historical interpretations that set the stage for the rest of the book. The essays in Part II address the question of whether PAS is morally justifiable I individual cases. Part III focuses specifically on physicians who have to decide whether they are morally obligated to take on the role of enabler when asked by their patients, or whether they are morally or legally obligated to turn down such requests. Part IV focuses on persons with disabilities and women who may be inclined to request assistance in committing suicide because of serious problems connected with their disabilities or gender. Part V addresses PAS as an issue of law and public policy.
目次
Preface Part I. Historical Interpretations 1. The Significance of Inaccurate History in Legal Considerations of Physician-Assisted Suicide/ Darrell W. Amundsen 2. Doctors and the Dying of Patients in American History/ Harold Y. Vanderpool Part II. Ethical Assessments and Positions 3. Self-Extinction: The Morality of the Helping Hand/ Daniel Callahan 4. Physician-Assisted Suicide is Sometimes Morally Justified/ Dan W. Brock Part III. Medical Practices and Perspectives 5. Physician-Assisted Suicide is Not an Acceptable Practice for Physicians/ Ira R. Byock 6. Assisting in Patient Suicides Is an Acceptable Practice for Physicians/ Howard Brody Part IV. Potentially Vulnerable Patients 7. Physician-Assisted Death in the Context of Disability/ Kristi L. Kirschner, Carol J. Gill, and Christine L. Cassel 8. Physician-Assisted Suicide, Abortion, and Treatment Refusal: Using Gender to Analyze the Difference/ Susan Wolf Part V. Public-Policy Options and Recommendations 9. Considerations of Safeguards Proposed in Laws and Guidelines to Legalize Assisted Suicide/ Steven Miles, Demetra M. Pappas, and Robert Koepp 10. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Evolving Public Policy/ William J. Winslade Appendixes 1. People v. Kevorkian, Supreme Court of Michigan, 1994 2. Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1996 3. Quill v. Vacco, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1996 Contributors Index
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