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Giving death a helping hand : physician-assisted suicide and public policy : an international perspective
Title:
Giving death a helping hand : physician-assisted suicide and public policy : an international perspective
Author:
Birnbacher, Dieter.
Publication Information:
[Dordrecht] : Springer, [2008]

©2008
Physical Description:
xii, 157 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized? / Slippery slopes and physician-assisted suicide / Physician-assisted suicide and the medical associations / Safe, legal, rare? Physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future / Palliative options of last resort: a comparison of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, terminal sedation, physician-assisted suicide, and voluntary active euthanasia / Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon / Physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Belgium / Physician-assisted suicide and the German criminal law / Physician-assisted death: an Australian perspective / Assisted dying : the view from the United Kingdom / Physician-assisted suicide: a doctor's perspective / Physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland : a personal report / European convention on human rights protects the right of suicide
ISBN:
9781402064951

9781402064968
Format :
Book