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Self-determination, the right to die, and culture: a literature review.

Social work, 2011
Self-determination is a primary ethical principle underlying social work practice in health care settings. Since the 1970s, a right-to-die movement that shares the social work commitment to self-determination has grown and influences end-of-life care ...
A. McCormick
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Assessing right to die attitudes: a conceptually guided measurement model.

Journal of Social Issues, 1996
This article discusses the current status of research regarding the assessment of attitudes toward euthanasia and other right to die constructs with a focus on conceptual and methodological issues hindering advancement in this area.
J. Rogers
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Deciding life and death in the courtroom. From Quinlan to Cruzan, Glucksberg, and Vacco--a brief history and analysis of constitutional protection of the 'right to die'.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 1997
This article analyzes judicial determinations on the "right to die" from Quinlan to Cruzan, Glucksberg, and Vacco. The body of law known as right-to-die cases extends ordinary treatment refusal doctrine to end-of-life decisions.
Lawrence O. Gostin
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Religious Authority and Public Opinion on the Right to Die

, 1998
Over the past fifty years, numerous public opinion surveys have indicated growing support for physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and right-to-die legislation.
Jenifer Hamil-Luker, Christian A. Smith
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The failed Patient Self-Determination Act and policy alternatives for the right to die.

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1998
The empirical evidence regarding the implementation and impact of the federal Patient Self-Determination Act is examined in this article. The Act was designed to increase the use of advance medical directives in light of the U.S.
Jeff Yates, H. Glick
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The right to die.

The Hastings center report, 1972
In spite of the almost commonplace ring which the title of this article has acquired in the course of recent public debate, one's first reaction should still be wonder. What an odd combination of words!
H. Jonas
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Against the Right to Die

, 1992
: For some patients, a right to receive euthanasia will not enhance autonomy in the morally relevant sense. Even if these patients choose wisely whether to exercise their right to die, they will still be harmed by having been given it.
J. Velleman
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Nancy Cruzan and the right to die.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1990
The national discussion concerning decision making for incompetent patients began with the 1976 case of Karen Ann Quinlan. Because she had been left in a persistent vegetative state after two periods of anoxia, her parents sought court authorization to ...
G. J. Annas
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Right-to-die responses from a random sample of 200.

The Hospice Journal, 1992
Seeking public attitudes toward the right-to-die, 200 telephone interviews were conducted with a random sample of residents in a midwestern city in the summer of 1990. Overall, 90% favored some kind of personal control over death circumstances.
R. Huber, V. M. Cox, W. B. Edelen
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Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America

, 2006
"Unplugged" addresses the fundamental questions of the right-to-die debate, and discusses how the medical advances that bring so much hope and healing have also helped to create today's dilemma.
W. Colby
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