The Case against assisted suicide [[electronic resource] ] : for the right to end-of-life care / / edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.24
• Soggetto topico: Assisted suicide; Terminal care - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FoleyKathleen M. <1944-> HendinHerbert
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective""; ""Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide""; ""Chapter 1 - “I Will Give No Deadly Drugâ€?: Why Doctors Must Not Kill""; ""Chapter 2 - Compassion Is Not Enough""; ""Chapter 3 - Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide""; ""Chapter 4 - The Rise and Fall of the “Rightâ€? to Assisted Suicide""; ""Practice versus Theory""; ""Chapter 5 - The Dutch Experience"" ; ""Chapter 6 - Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician""""Chapter 7 - The Oregon Experiment""; ""Chapter 8 - Oregonâ€?s Culture of Silence""; ""Chapter 9 - Deadly Days in Darwin""; ""Reason to Be Concerned""; ""Chapter 10 - Not Dead Yet""; ""Chapter 11 - Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide""; ""Chapter 12 - Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally Ill Patients""; ""A Better Way""; ""Chapter 13 - A Hospice Perspective"" ; ""Chapter 14 - Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide""""Conclusion: Changing the Culture""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
• Titolo autorizzato: The Case against assisted suicide
• ISBN: 0-8018-7554-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455006003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II