The Case Against Assisted Suicide

For the Right to End-Of-Life Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7901-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Dr. Kathleen Foley and Dr. Herbert Hendin uncover why pleas for patient autonomy and compassion, often used in favor of legalizing euthanasia, do not advance or protect the rights of terminally ill patients. Incisive essays by authorities in the fields of medicine, law, and bioethics draw on studies done in the Netherlands, Oregon, and Australia by the editors and contributors that show the dangers that legalization of assisted suicide would pose to the most vulnerable patients. Thoughtful and persuasive, this book urges the medical profession to improve palliative care and develop a more humane response to the complex issues facing those who are terminally ill.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foley, Kathleen M.

Hendin, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective
Part I: Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide
Chapter 1. "I Will Give No Deadly Drug": Why Doctors Must Not Kill
Chapter 2. Compassion Is Not Enough
Chapter 3. Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of the "Right" to Assisted Suicide
Part II: Practice Versus Theory
Chapter 5. The Dutch Experience
Chapter 6. Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician
Chapter 7. The Oregon Experiment
Chapter 8. Oregon's Culture of Silence
Chapter 9. Deadly Days in Darwin
Part III: Reason To Be Concerned
Chapter 10. Not Dead Yet
Chapter 11. Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide
Chapter 12. Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally Ill Patients
Part IV: A Better Way
Chapter 13. A Hospice Perspective
Chapter 14. Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide
Conclusion: Changing the Culture
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hendin, Herbert
Herbert Hendin, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College and medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Foley, Kathleen M.
Kathleen Foley, M.D., is professor of neurology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and director of the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation.

Kathleen Foley, M.D., is professor of neurology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and director of the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation.Herbert Hendin, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College and medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.