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Physician-Assisted Suicide: What Are the Issues? : What Are the Issues? by Loretta M Kopelman; Kenneth Allen De Ville; Society of Health and Human Values is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues? offers a detailed discussion of recent supreme court rulings that have had an impact on the contemporary debate in the United States and elsewhere over physician-assisted suicide. Two rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court have altered the contemporary debate on physician-assisted suicide: Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Vacco v. Quill (1997). In these cases, the Supreme Court ruled that state laws could prohibit assisted suicide and, therefore, physician-assisted suicide. These rulings mark the apex of over two decades of unprecedented litigation regarding end-of-life care and signal the beginning of a new clinical, ethical, and legal debate over the extent of an individual's rights to control the timing, manner, and means of his/her death. The debate over suicide and assisting suicide is ancient and contentious and intertwined with questions about the permissibility of voluntary active euthanasia or mercy killing. Responses to these issues can be divided into those who defend physician-assisted suicide and many of these other activities and those who object. But those who object may do so on principled grounds in that they regard th

Author

Loretta M Kopelman; Kenneth Allen De Ville; Society of Health and Human Values

Publisher

Springer; Kluwer Academic Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401096317

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Medical