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“An indelible mark” the response to participation in euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide among doctors: A review of research findings

Palliative & Supportive Care, 2019
Introduction The debate regarding euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (E/PAS) raises key issues about the role of the doctor, and the professional, ethical, and clinical dimensions of the doctor-patient relationship.
B. Kelly, T. Handley, D. Kissane, M. Vamos, J. Attia   +4 more
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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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Physician-assisted suicide travel constraints: thematic content analysis of online reviews

Tourism Recreation Resarch, 2019
Constraints to participating in leisure activities have been studied extensively. Yet given the sensitive nature of death and death-related topics, little effort has been invested in understanding travel constraints that limit people’s decisions to ...
Jun Wen, Chung-En Yu, Edmund Goh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Journal of Palliative Care, 2018
Medical professional societies have traditionally opposed physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS-E), but this opposition may be shifting. We present 5 reasons why physicians shouldn’t be involved in PAS-E. 1.
C. Sprung, Margaret A. Somerville
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If physician-assisted suicide is the modern woman’s last powerful choice, why are White women its leading advocates and main users?

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 2019
Women, particularly educated White women, are at the forefront of the U.S. physician-assisted-suicide legalization movement, as advocates and leaders. They also represent half of decedents by physicianassisted suicide, though they are a minority among ...
S. S. Canetto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Psychiatric Illness.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2018
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Psychiatric Illness In exceptional cases, suicide might be considered a rational choice of a competent person, even in the presence of psychiatric illness.
J. Vandenberghe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatric Services, 1999
Varghese, F. T., Kelly, B. J.
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Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018
TO THE EDITOR: Because some states have legalized PAS, we as physicians must be careful to uphold the principles of medicine (to cure sometimes, provide healing always, and harm never) while at the same time balance these unchangeable truths with ...
Banu E Symington
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Heaven, hell, and attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide

Journal of Health Psychology, 2018
Using data from the 2007 Baylor Religion Survey, I evaluate whether beliefs in heaven and hell are associated with attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide.
Shane Sharp
semanticscholar   +1 more source