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Record Nr.

UNISA996199885003316

Autore

Hillyard Daniel <1962, >

Titolo

Dying right : the death with dignity movement / / Daniel Hillyard and John Dombrink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-135-95768-1

1-135-95769-X

0-585-45173-7

0-203-90255-6

1-280-35509-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DombrinkJohn

Disciplina

179.7

344.73/04197

Soggetti

Right to die - Law and legislation - United States

Assisted suicide - Law and legislation - United States

Euthanasia - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Fate Worse than DeathChallenging the Legal Treatment of Dying; Death with DignityThe Early States, 1991  1992; Passage of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act; A Movement to Repeal the Oregon Death With Dignity Act; Compassion in DyingThe Assisted Suicide Test Cases; Building the Safe HarborThe Implementation of the ODDA; Death with Dignity in Other States and Other Countries; The Good Death Changing Moral Boundaries; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral, and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.