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Disability and Physician-Assisted Suicide

New England Journal of Medicine, 1997
On January 8, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Vacco v. Quill 1 and Washington v. Glucksberg, 2 the two cases concerning whether a state may prohibit persons in the terminal stage of an illness from obtaining the assistance of their physicians in ending their lives.
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The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
With the enactment of an Oregon statute permitting physician-assisted suicide,1,2 the recognition of a constitutional right to assisted suicide by two U.S. courts of appeals,3,4 discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Journal, 5 and the acquittals of Dr. Jack Kevorkian,6,7 there appears to be a dramatic shift in right-to-die law.
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Trust and Physician-assisted suicide

Home Care Provider, 1997
In the first week of January, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the matter of assisted suicide. The prohibition against physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in Oregon, New York, and Washington is being challenged.
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The Problem of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Seminars in Neurology, 1997
With the increasing acceptance of the right of patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment, some have argued that terminally ill patients have a corollary right to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) on request. However, there are important moral and legal distinctions between patients' refusals of therapy and requests for certain actions.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

1994
Abstract Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia are now legal in the Netherlands and in Belgium; PAS is legal in one state, Oregon, in the United States. Although guidelines for PAS/euthanasia have been developed, they are not consistently followed.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatric Services, 1999
Varghese, F. T., Kelly, B. J.
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Attitudes toward Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychological Reports, 1998
Personality test scores (psychoticism, neuroticism and extraversion) were not associated with attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide in a sample of 50 undergraduate students.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
In Committee on Bioethical Issues of the Medical Society of the State of New York published an article titled "Physician-assisted suicide."1 The position of the Committee, consonant with that of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association,2 was that physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the ...
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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

JAMA, 2016
Kenneth R, Stevens, William L, Toffler
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Crisis, 1996
D C, Clark, A J, Kerkhof
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