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Euthanasia

The debate over euthanasia, including its themes and rhetoric, has evolved throughout history. While during the eighteenth up through the early twentieth centuries, the debate focused on the ideas of mercy killing and easy death, during the latter part of the twentieth century, specifically in the 1...

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Other Authors: Medina, Loreta M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit, MI Thomson Gale 2005
Series:Opposing viewponts series
Subjects:
Euthanasia > History
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
Euthanasia > Law and legislation > History
Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects
Euthanasia
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Table of Contents:
  • EUTHANASIA AND SUICIDE IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: Views on euthanasia and suicide from ancient Greece to the Middle Ages / Michael M. Uhlmann
  • Euthanasia from the Renaissance through the early Twentieth Century / Derek Humphry and Ann Wickett
  • The first euthanasia society in the United States / Charles Francis Potter
  • "Euthanasia" in Nazi Germany / U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • The euthanasia debate in the 1950s and the 1960s / Ian Dowbiggin
  • LEGAL BATTLES: The Quinlan case establishes the right to have life support withdrawn / Charles E. Hughes
  • The law requires clear evidence of a patient's wish to forgo life-sustaining treatment / William Rehnquist
  • The Hemlock Society starts the movement to legalize assisted suicide / Derek Humphry and Mary Clement
  • The Supreme Court upholds a state's ban on assisted suicide / William Rehnquist
  • Assisted suicide could be legalized in the future / Ronald Dworkin
  • The continuing legal battle over physician-assisted suicide in Oregon / Lawrence Rudden
  • THE ETHICAL DEBATE: Assisted suicide is a transgression of divine sovereignty / John J. Paris and Michael P. Moreland
  • Assisted suicide does not violate the sanctity of life / John Shelby Spong
  • Legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands has resulted in many deaths without consent / Herbert Hendin
  • Physician-assisted suicide is morally justified / Kenneth Cauthen
  • PHYSICIANS AND ASSISTED SUICIDE: Assisting in suicide is part of a physician's duty / Jack Kevorkian
  • Physician-assisted suicide subverts the role of doctors as healers / Lonnie R. Bristow
  • Patients need better end-of-life care rather than assisted suicide / Kathleen Foley
  • When palliative care fails, assisted suicide should be an option / Timothy E. Quill
  • Chronology.

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