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The Many Faces of Physician-Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 1998
Physician-assisted suicide is a complex and controversial issue that touches on standards of medical practice, the balance between individual rights and the rights of the state, and our fears of death and pain.
Roscoe, Lori A.
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Rural Health at a Crossroads: How Policymakers Have Failed Rural America and What Can Be Done for a Healthier Tomorrow

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Rural communities have more limited access to medical care and worse health outcomes. Existing federal and state policies largely fall short in addressing rural access disparities. Rural health woes require increased government funding for providers and the embrace of alternative health delivery mechanisms, as well as expanded public ...
MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
wiley   +1 more source

The Case for Phycisian Assisted Suicide: How Can It Possible Be Proven?

open access: yes, 2006
In her paper, The case for physician assisted suicide: not (yet) proven, Bonnie Steinbock argues that the experience with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act fails to demonstrate that the benefits of legalising physician assisted suicide outweigh its risks ...
Dahl, E., Levy, N.
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Report of the committee on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
journal articleIn 1994 the Board of the American Association of Suicidology selected a Committee on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. It was asked to review the issues emerging in the growing controversy concerning euthanasia, physician ...
Maltsberger, J.; Canetto, S. S.; O\u27Carroll, P.; Clark, D.; Conwell, Y.; Mishara, B.; Rubey, C.; Shneidman, E.   +1 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: German Protestantism, Conscience, and the Limits of Purely Ethical Reflection

open access: yes, 2003
In this essay I shall describe and analyse the current debate on physician assisted suicide in contemporary German Protestant church and theology. It will be shown that the Protestant (mainly Lutheran) Church in Germany together with her Roman Catholic ...
Bartmann, Peter
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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Availability of behavioral health crisis care and associated changes in emergency department utilization

open access: yesHealth Services Research, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Objective To determine whether availability of behavioral health crisis care services is associated with changes in emergency department (ED) utilization. Data Sources and Study Setting We used longitudinal panel data (2016–2021) on ED utilization from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State ED Databases and a novel dataset on ...
Ashlyn Burns   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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