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Title Euthanasia : the good of the patient, the good of society / [edited by] Robert I. Misbin.

Imprint Frederick, Md. : University Pub. Group, c1992.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  179.7 Eu84    ---  Available
Description x, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Physician responsibility for euthanasia / Peter Angelos -- Doctors must not kill / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- The quality of mercy: examination of the proposition "doctors must not kill" / Frederick R. Abrams -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands: brief historical review and present situation / Else Borst-Eilers -- What the law allows: legal aspects of euthanasia on request in the Netherlands / J.K.M. Gevers -- A physician's responsibility to help a patient die / Pieter V. Admiraal -- Active euthanasia: is mercy killing the killing of mercy? / D.J. Bakker -- Should we copy the Dutch?: the Netherlands' practice of voluntary euthanasia as a model for the United States / Margaret Pabst Battin -- Impact of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law on clinical practice in a cancer research institution / Ethics Group of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center -- Should a terminally ill patient have the right to demand resuscitation? / Howard Brody -- Preserving the professional ethics: physicians are not obligated to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Nanette B. Hoffman -- The hidden issue in futility judgments: justifying turning the traditional logic of beneficence on its head / Laurence B. McCullough -- From "natural death" to "aid in dying": reflections on the American judicial experience / Edward R. Grant, Clarke D. Forsythe -- Sovereignty, stewardship, and the self: religious perspectives on euthanasia / Courtney S. Campbell -- The historical and religious framework for euthanasia in the Netherlands / Titia H.C. Bueller -- Physician-assisted suicide and the suicide machine / Ronald F. White -- Federal policy regarding end-of-life decisions / Mitchell M. Handelsman.
Subject Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to die -- Law and legislation.
Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to die -- Law and legislation
Euthanasia -- Netherlands -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to die -- Law and legislation -- Netherlands.
Added Author Misbin, Robert I.
ISBN 155572017X

 
    
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