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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996
In Committee on Bioethical Issues of the Medical Society of the State of New York published an article titled "Physician-assisted suicide."1 The position of the Committee, consonant with that of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association,2 was that physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the ...
Fred Rosner, Bennett Aj
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To be or Not to Be: Assisted Suicide Revisited

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 1995
Publicity accorded American physician-pathologist Jack Kevorkian and “physician-assisted suicide” bring a new, technological, twist to euthanasia. How and when we die and its meaning and how we live reflect cultural values within a historical context.
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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
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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
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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
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The Ethics of Assisted Suicide

Health & Social Work, 1994
The ethics of assisted suicide and the wisdom of changing public policy to support assisted suicide are considered from the perspective of the social work profession. The traditional social work value of client self-determination is reviewed and discussed, and tensions in this ideal and conflicts with another primary social work value--client well ...
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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
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Gastroenterology Nursing, 2003
There are many issues surrounding the end of life. One of the most controversial is physician-assisted suicide. Because nursing is intimately involved with care of patients at the end of life in a variety of settings, it is incumbent upon nurses to be well informed on this issue.
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Assisted Suicide

2017
Ronald Dworkin was a professor of philosophy and a professor of law at New York University. His works include Law’s Empire (1986) and Taking Rights Seriously (1977).
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ASSISTING SUICIDE IN MICHIGAN

Bioethics, 1996
ABSTRACTPerhaps no American state has seen more legal activity on assisting suicide than Michigan, but despite legislation, a study Commission, several legal cases and a state Supreme Court ruling, the state seems much further from a humane resolution of the question than when the activities of Dr. Jack Kevorkian began in June of 1990.
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