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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.
T S, Zaubler, M D, Sullivan
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2005
Tremendous debate surrounds the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide in the United States. Progress requires carefully mapping the relationship of this practice to termination of life-sustaining treatment, appropriate pain relief and palliative care, and euthanasia.
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ALS and physician-assisted suicide

Neurology, 2016
Patients with a new diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may struggle with uncertainty about progression and the realization that they will lose key functions and how they will ultimately cope. Eventually, most lose abilities to talk, walk or transfer, swallow, and feed themselves, and are increasingly dependent on others.
Jonathan, Katz, Hiroshi, Mitsumoto
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CULT SUICIDE AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Psychological Reports, 2002
A greater proportion of Dr. Kevorkian's physician-assisted suicides and the Heaven's Gate cult suicides appear to be women than the general population of suicides.
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No more physician in physician-assisted suicide

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2015
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is an important subject internationally and receives much attention. Some jurisdictions including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and four American States (Oregon, Montana, Vermont and Washington), have legalised PAS. In the UK, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide are both illegal, but debate about whether
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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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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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A Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatric Services, 1998
Dr. Hartmann: This debate is a small part of a large continuing American and international debate on physician-assisted suicide. I will argue that physician-assisted suicide should be legal, and Dr. Meyerson will argue that it should not. The state of Oregon now has a law called the Death With Dignity Act.
L, Hartmann, A, Meyerson
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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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Emergency physicians and physician-assisted suicide, part I: A review of the physician-assisted suicide debate

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2001
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has been one of the most hotly debated bioethics and health policy issues of the past decade. Part I of this 2-part article defines key terms in the debate, reviews the history of the debate, and articulates leading arguments for and against legalization of the practice of PAS.
J C, Moskop, K V, Iserson
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