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PSYCHIATRY AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1996
The psychiatric literature on physician-assisted suicide is scant and almost universally opposed to legalization. This opposition stems from the traditional perspective of suicide as a symptom of mental illness and the tendency of psychiatrists to extend their view of suicide in the medically well to the terminally ill.
Mark D. Sullivan, Thomas S. Zaubler
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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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Alternatives to physician-assisted suicide

American Journal of Otolaryngology, 1995
Two alternatives to physician-assisted suicide are ethically supported and legally permitted by American law. They are proper pain management and the forgoing of life-sustaining treatment. Correct understanding of pain management in the context of the dying patient shows that it is always medically possible, and, assuming that the proper decision-maker
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002
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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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Physician-assisted suicide

Critical Care Medicine, 2009
Oswaldo Castro, Victor B. Gordeuk
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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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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

2005
When the debate over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide emerged into public consciousness in the mid-1970s, the debate got off to a rousing start, as philosophers, doctors, theologians, public-policy theorists, journalists, social advocates, and private citizens became embroiled in the debate. On the one side were liberals, who thought physician-
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The Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2000
Henry R. Glick, Amy Hutchinson
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Physician assisted suicide

British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2011
Yogi Amin, Anne-Marie Irwin
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